On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:01:27AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> I would be terribly interested in a running tally if anyone would be
> diligent enough to contribute data. I am at a loss to explain why there
> is, seemingly, such a dearth of women in Perl and computing in general.
> I don't know that statistics will answer that question, but a pattern
> might form. I was under the impression that the west coast had far more
> women than the east coast in technical positions...I wonder why Seattle
> has so few in this instance.
OK, here are my stats, since I started using our current enrolment
database:
Female Male
Introduction to Perl 45% 55%
Intermediate Perl 33% 67%
CGI Programming in Perl 44% 56%
Web databases with Perl/DBI 47% 53%
Unix Basics 67% 33%
Unix Tools 62% 38%
Internet Fundamentals beta 71% 29%
Note that the "beta" of Internet Fundamentals was attended by "friends and
family" of Netizen, including our receptionist, a couple of Netizen
peoples' parents, a Netizen person's girlfriend, and a couple of
volunteers from the community ISP who loaned us a training room to hold
the beta in.
The other courses are a mix of mostly public enrolment courses in
Melbourne and Sydney with the odd corporate training session thrown in.
Since the ratios were similar between public/private courses, I just
amalgamated them.
K.
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