Where are the females?

Kangaroo · 08-13-2004, 05:37 AM

I recently read an article in CUSTOMPC magazine by Paul Dutton called "Where are the L33T women?"

So a gender count!

Emily · 08-13-2004, 12:19 PM

I'm a girl... there was an article about the lack of female geeks in US News And World Report last week.

Ken Masters · 08-13-2004, 12:44 PM

I was just thinking about that today. What do girls do if they don't like computers, comics, video games? I mean what else is there to do in life. JK.

beedubaya · 08-13-2004, 01:13 PM

The computer field is definately male dominated. In my IT class of about 30 at vocational school, there was only one female and she didn't want to be there.

GameGURU · 08-13-2004, 04:40 PM

Me being man...

Emily · 08-13-2004, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ken Masters
I was just thinking about that today. What do girls do if they don't like computers, comics, video games? I mean what else is there to do in life. JK.

We shop.

Slam'n Systems · 08-13-2004, 05:22 PM

I look at girls into computers as (appearance wise) the buckteeth-big classes, really skinny or really fat girls ... not always, but from what i've seen ... that's usually how it turns out

Inaris · 08-13-2004, 05:36 PM

In the past 5 years of my life I have seen a wide variety of individuels who work in IT, and I would have to agree with Slam on this. I meet 2 women that didn't fit the image and I wish there were more.
Oh, do I ever with there were more...

Emily · 08-13-2004, 06:23 PM

I hope I'm not offending anyone by saying this, but the reason there aren't more females (good-looking or otherwise) in the IT industry is because of intimidating guys who make us feel like we can't be in the field unless we fit a certain stereotype. It's kind of a catch-22: if you're good-looking and female, then no one takes you seriously or respects you because you're just a piece of ***, but if you're not good-looking, then most men won't respect you because they don't consider you worth their time. I know that's a stereotype of men, but that's how it is with a lot of guys, or at least guys that I know.

(And for the record, I don't have buckteeth or glasses and I'm not really fat or really skinny.

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GameGURU · 08-13-2004, 06:36 PM

Sadly...i see that is true all over the place...

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