From my church to my workplace to the Sunday Parade, I'm hearing about how women
are wired differently.   Some scientist put a bunch of men and women in a maze.
The scientist then tested both whether they could find their way home AND what
details they could remember from the walls on their path.  The men were better
at finding their way out (better 3D reasoning); the women were better at
remembering what they saw along the way (noticing details and patterns).

I'd bet that a woman with equal creativity, intelligence, and love of computers
to the POV-community would get into FRACTALS instead of 3D raytracing. That's my
rough impression from the number of web sites by women fractal artists.

Of course, a woman with equal intelligence and educational opportunities might
try something more nurturing (nursing), or language related (law, languages)
than engineering.

I've also heard that men like to compete, to win, to lose, to find out how they
rank against others. Women like to nurture relationships and make friends.
Thus, a female raytracer might be more likely to set up a web site full of tips
to help others (ala Sonya Roberts) rather than to enjoy the confrontational
risks of the IRTC.

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Greg M. Johnson
Of course there are exceptions, but my church and employer said so!

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