Re: gender mix
[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz))
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>>>>> "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? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!