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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> >> Does anybody *else* find it ironic that the world's first programmer was
> >> a women??
> >
> > Noo. Why should it be ironic or even mentionable?
>
> Because today all programmers are male? (Indeed, all people remotely
> connected with computer technology are male.)
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
Where I work we have a staff of about 65 programmers, 20 of whom are female.
So while computer technology is predominatly male, there are significant numbers
of females involved. In another post I mentioned that a few programmers caused
me a lot of agravation. None of them are female.
Isaac
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:14:05 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Because today all programmers are male? (Indeed, all people remotely
> connected with computer technology are male.)
Untrue, unless I imagine the females in the engineering department who
code and work in system test...
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Untrue, unless I imagine the females in the engineering department who
> code and work in system test...
This has definitely changed in recent decades. When I was in grad
school, one of the students said something about women not being into
computers, and the rest of the class went "OOoooo!" (as in, "Ooooo,
you're so politically incorrect.") He just said "Well, look around."
True, there were two women in a class of 30+ students.
At Bellcore (mid-90's) I can remember one woman out of the 30 people I
worked with.
Nowadays, I see (like others) about 30% women in a given group of
technical folks. I think the numbers got a lot bigger during the "dot
com boom."
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Darren New wrote:
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> Nowadays, I see (like others) about 30% women in a given group of
> technical folks. I think the numbers got a lot bigger during the "dot
> com boom."
>
Would that count as most of the women being wice enough to stay out of
IT? :p
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:46:11 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> This has definitely changed in recent decades.
Oh yes, absolutely; the school I went to had a male/female ratio worse
than Berkeley - engineering and software development were the largest
degree programs. The engineering physics degree was something of an
anomaly, as 16% of the enrolled students in the entire program were
female. Of course, there were only *6* enrolled....
Jim
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Seriously. Trying to find elligable partners over the Internet = fail.
> Been there, done that to death, got nowhere. Like everybody keeps
> telling me, I need to get out more...
A coworker had sex with a different girl every weekend. She met them using
one of those social networking sites (during work time of course XD).
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Well let me see now. At college, there were 0 girls in the class. At
> uni, there was 80 males and 3 females. And most of them went into
> service or support. All of the programming lectures had 0 females. As
> far as I can tell, the entire Haskell mailing list has 1 female on it,
> and several dozen males. Need I continue?
As you must know from XKCD, spreading that kind of statistics is the reason
why there are no females. And you may get banned from the Internet for
doing so.
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>> Well let me see now. At college, there were 0 girls in the class. At
>> uni, there was 80 males and 3 females. And most of them went into
>> service or support. All of the programming lectures had 0 females. As
>> far as I can tell, the entire Haskell mailing list has 1 female on it,
>> and several dozen males. Need I continue?
>
> As you must know from XKCD, spreading that kind of statistics is the reason
> why there are no females. And you may get banned from the Internet for
> doing so.
But... but... how would you guys cope if I got banned from teh
interwebs? ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> A coworker had sex with a different girl every weekend. She met them using
> one of those social networking sites (during work time of course XD).
I accidentally put an ad in the gay section once. Within hours I had
two-dozen replies. When I moved it to the correct section, I got 0
replies in 24 months.
Also... I had a look on one social networking site where it shows hit
counts on each page. In a period of (IIRC) 1 month, my profile got 6
hits, and a female coworker's page got 17,000 hits.
What more can I say?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
> But... but... how would you guys cope if I got banned from teh
> interwebs? ;-)
>
We don't. That's why we want you to stop spreading such false statistics.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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