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.
We only teach one Perl class at our company, and I only have numbers for
the last few runs, but they look something like this:
Male Female Total
1/2000 14 4 18
6/1999 15 1 16
3/1999 10 2 12
9/1998 25 1 26
5/1998 18 1 19
Oddly enough, though, the last few webfactory projects I worked on at
Ford had an overwhemlimg majority of female Perl programmers. 6/2, 7/1
and 5/2 females to males.[1] Most of the people we're training came out
of and went back into these webfactory pools, and I'm at a loss to
explain the discrepancy. Maybe the females are self-taught? Maybe our
hiring manager discriminates? I don't really know.
[1] Being Lead Developer and Resident Perl Geek for these projects was
nice. I was often accused of managing a harem. A nice job, if you can
get it.[2]
[2] I'm also a Unix Geek, not a Eunuch Geek. :)
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