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From: Sunil Rao <sunil.rao@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/12
Date: 1999-07-12T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <378A1146.3810776F@ic.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca

Roedy Green wrote:
> Back in my university days, the distribution of men and women in the
> computer field was much more equal than today.  What happened?  Why
> did computers become an almost exclusively male preserve?

Ever since young socially inept boys discovered the magic of
microcomputers and videogame consoles and chose to spend their days
playing with their newfangled toys. The number of geeky males far
exceeds the corresponding number in females, and it is probably best to
take this discussion to a sociology newsgroup.


-- 
{ Sunil Rao }
"In my opinion, I think that an author when he is writing should
 definitely not get into the habit of making use of too many 
 unnecessary words that he does not really need in order to put his
 message across."  - George L Trigg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 42748 (1979).




  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-12  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-08  0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09  0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12  0:00   ` Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09  0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09  0:00   ` P.S. Norby
     [not found]     ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09  0:00       ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09  0:00         ` firewind
1999-07-10  0:00           ` John Duncan
1999-07-10  0:00         ` Kenny A. Chaffin
1999-07-09  0:00     ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12  0:00       ` Sunil Rao [this message]
1999-07-12  0:00         ` Jim
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13  0:00             ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13  0:00               ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13  0:00       ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13  0:00         ` Lawrence Kirby
1999-07-13  0:00         ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00             ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14  0:00               ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13  0:00             ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00               ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13  0:00                 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00                   ` LR
1999-07-13  0:00               ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13  0:00                 ` Dale King
1999-07-13  0:00                 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00                   ` Dale King
1999-07-13  0:00                   ` Richard Heathfield
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