I have to point out, I have had some very sharp women in my
classes. Almost without exception they have come from the sysadmin
and not the development side, but nonetheless have had exceptional
programming skills (when I get one of these she's usually better
than all the guys).
-joseph
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On 16 Jan 2000 12:30:10 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
* >>>>> "Clinton" == Clinton A Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
*
* Clinton> Oddly enough, though, the last few webfactory projects I
* Clinton> worked on at Ford had an overwhemlimg majority of female Perl
* Clinton> programmers. 6/2, 7/1 and 5/2 females to males.[1] Most of
* Clinton> the people we're training came out of and went back into
* Clinton> these webfactory pools, and I'm at a loss to explain the
* Clinton> discrepancy. Maybe the females are self-taught? Maybe our
* Clinton> hiring manager discriminates? I don't really know.
*
* I've noticed that if it's traditional CS, males far outnumber females,
* but if it's web-related stuff (including ecommerce), the numbers get
* much more even. Why so?
