Re: gender mix

At 12:30 PM 1/16/00 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>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?

It's more practical, includes visual design, and it's about communicating 
with people.  I'm sure the ratio doesn't extend to the business of 
designing and implementing the protocols for WWW and ecommerce.

My CS class (Cambridge Tripos - the educational structure is different 
there from the US, or for that matter, many places in the UK) in 1981 had 
IIRC 3 women.  Out of about 120.

Cripes.

Thank God the figures for the industry got better after that, or I'd never 
have gotten married :-)


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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies