From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108793,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid108793,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fb3cb,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb3cb,public X-Google-Thread: f973d,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf973d,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 115d3b,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid115d3b,public From: Sunil Rao Subject: Re: Partners Wanted Date: 1999/07/12 Message-ID: <378A1146.3810776F@ic.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500150204 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37852976.F8027C86@home.com> <7m4dut$r3i$1@news.cybercity.dk> <3785F6D1.3BE9@cacd.rockwell.com> <378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca> Organization: ISE @ ic.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi Date: 1999-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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).