Why there is so few female programmers?

[Sylph]

yeah i know male is a gender.. :-O but that wasn't the point i was tryin to make.. sheesh gimme a break its 1:30am here.. and am tryin to finish a java assignment ;P so my brain is mush.

[Roger Wright]

Nishant S wrote: Weird eh? Heaven, I should think!:-D Word of the day: Rotundacrat
Extra Credit will be awarded for: Quasimobo...

[Mike Gaskey]

My long term observation is that: 1) ladies in this "business" work harder (read as less socializing) during a work day but put in less hours, reluctance to work late nights / weekends -> family responsibilities. 2) are more thorough than male counterparts -> far more complete in analysis, design, testing and documentation. 3) are more stable, less childish than male counterparts who tend to have more of an ego involvment. 4) are more demanding (but better) in managerial roles. The greater strength of the male is on the creativity side of the equation, and the greater willingness to put in loooong hours. I would suspect the reason that the male / female posting ratio here supports the idea that few cpians are female is they tend to stop by to pick up an idea then go about their business while we tend to visit and stay. Just my $ 0.02 worth - Mike

[Tomaz Stih 0]

...and there should be more! r u crazy? with the market like now? tomaz

[Tomaz Stih 0]

lauren wrote: can i say this then ... *sniggaz* ... men _tend_ to be better at actually producing the code and stuff but chikkies _tend_ to be better at organizing the whole solution? now theoretically there is no way in preventing you from saying that. but it is rather distant from the reality of IT being man industry - and very thouroughly. including organizing the solutions. tomaz

[Tomaz Stih 0]

yeah, well, i suppose it's time we men move to management and let some fresh blood flow into entry positions. tomaz

[Sylph]

tstih wrote: yeah, well, i suppose it's time we men move to management and let some fresh blood flow into entry positions. tomaz get over urself!.

[Tomaz Stih 0]

i can't. i am evil. tomaz

[mystro_AKA_kokie]

peterchen wrote: you can compensate for almost every "deficiency" with hard work What if hard work is your deficiency?:)

[Sylph]

being evil is no excuse for putting us women down ;P u suck.

[Tomaz Stih 0]

i'm not putting you down silly. you and lauren started by putting men down elaborating your world domination theory on the way and i offered some resistance. evil uncontrollable men like myself make no excuses. we're evil, remember?

[Joe Woodbury]

There are several fields where women are unrepresented for no apparent reason; the two that pop into mind are motorcycle and automobile racing. Believe it or not, I think there's a parallel. In motor racing, most drivers were heavily involved as kids--it's more than Dads (and Moms) pushing it, they become car nerds, er, nuts. And then there's the competitive, generally without grudges, angle Likewise, most the programmers I know are techno-geeks, or were for the first ten years in the business. Even when they get burned out, they still pay attention to the dry news report that company x increased processor speed by so much (like the car geeks ears perk up when a company gets 5 more horse power out of an engine.) My point is, that relatively few women are techno-geeks or car nuts for that matter, as teenagers and I think that shapes choices when going into college. (My teenage daughter keeps pictures of high end cars which is considered odd by all her girl friends, but not her guy friends.)

[Megan Forbes]

Too true! I will say this tho (as a woman programmer) - I totally dig working in an otherwise all male IT dept. None of the bitchy crap that the receptionist types go in for, and at work I'm just one of the guys. At home, I get the luxury of being a married woman. The best of both worlds ;):cool::rose: The following statement about your geekness is true.
The previous statement about your geekness is false.

[Megan Forbes]

Without a doubt! :cool: The following statement about your geekness is true.
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[Megan Forbes]

That is true, sadly girls are often not introduced to the fun side of technology as easily as guys are, but any girl with guy friends will soon catch on :-D The following statement about your geekness is true.
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[Sylph]

i never put men down... look at the hundreds of posts b4 hand about women!.. sheesh... i had to defend the womens sooner or later i luv men.. there just a tad stupid sometimes :)...ok Mr Tstih! ;)

[Tomaz Stih 0]

alles klar. i apologize if you promise not to enslave me when you take over. and now it's really, really time to return to your java assignment, miss sylph. nobody's taken the world without working hard for it. :-) thomas

[peterchen]

then, of course, you're caught in an recursion trap and the universe will collapse to a black dot. (or a pink dot, if the universe was made by a woman :cool:)

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[Rohit Sinha]

This proves peterchen's point that you girls can't focus. You need to finish an assignment and here you are, posting on CP. Shhesh. ;P
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Rohit Sinha

[Paul Riley]

lauren wrote: can i say this then ... *sniggaz* ... men _tend_ to be better at actually producing the code and stuff but chikkies _tend_ to be better at organizing the whole solution? Honestly Lauren, I worked for a long time in a place where the programmers were roughly mixed and I think as a general statement you are bang on the mark there, to the point where I'd say most women are useless coders and most men are useless organisers. Just my experience but well summarised. Paul