Re: gender mix

[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz))
Newsgroups perl.trainers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "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?

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