Lurk lurk ... but I have to toss in this article about the male/female disproportion among the geekly that I stumbled across on slashdot by chance half a year ago. The author has now archived it herself apparently. I think the reflections on socialization and the "larval stage" of geek development are hard to beat.
http://infotrope.net/writing/content/chick2/chick2.html T. (but what do I know) ... lurk lurk melissa ion kibbe wrote (on 18 Apr 2001, at 18:34): > > > Well, they could start by explaining why so few women are interested in IT, > > and if they see a > > way to overcome it. > > > > And if there is , and it's within our reach/abilities, well what are we > > waiting for ? > > unfortunately, i think it comes back to the way we were raised as kids (in > the u.s. anyway; i can't speak for other countries). and the way we are > raised stems from the stereotypes addressed in this thread. little girls' > toys aren't technical. they're not programmable or build-at-home like > toys that are marketed toward little boys. where as most little boys grow > up with leggos, race car tracks and remote-control cars (the lucky ones > :), most girls get life-like baby dolls and other such doll-related > things. dolls are great, don't get me wrong. i had my share when i was > young. but what i notice is that girls' toys are ready to play with right > out of the package. boys' usually involve some building or problem > solving, such as model-building. this lays the foundation for an adult > life of questioning how things are put together and how they work. > > this is obvioulsy not true for everyone, especially those girls who built > models of the Enterprise when they were kids :). but i think it explains > a bit why presence of females is a bit lacking in the technolgy field. > > > melissa. > > -----http://web.morgul.net/~atomic/------ > "Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac > (and nobody cares about it)." -- Bill Joy 6/21/85 > ----------------------------------------------- > GAT d--@ -p+ c+++(++++) l++ u+ e+(*) m* s n+(---) h- f+ !g w+++ t++(+++) > r+ x+ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
