On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can think of 3 reasons off the top of my head. > > 1) Fewer women are interested in Computer Science. > 2) Women are put of by the high proportion of men in this field. > 3) Women are put off by the treatment they receive from others (men) > in the field. >
I go with 4) Fewer girls are interested in Computer Science. I suspect there is a feedback loop between your 1 and my 4. That is just a suspicion, though, and I would expect that given time this would change. I think what a lot of people ignore in some of this is that there are a lot of very open minded people when it comes to sexism and such, by and large they are left behind by those that have more traditionally sexist views. (Saw a study showing this once, I can try to find it in a link, if desired.) The upshot is that many of the visibly successful people in a field actually hold some fairly sexist views. (I believe it was shown that this exists in men and women. I know I have heard the anecdote that women are much harsher towards female candidates than men are.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
