From: Jim@jibbering.com (Jim)
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/12
Date: 1999-07-12T16:52:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <378a1d89.31805403@news.mistral.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 378A1146.3810776F@ic.ac.uk
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:01:10 +0100, Sunil Rao <sunil.rao@ic.ac.uk>
wrote:
>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.
But UK stats show young girls are more likely to be online than young
men (under 18's.) so that falls down, course it's too late for those
of older, we're all stuck as geeky males.
Jim.
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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
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim [this message]
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
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 ` 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 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR
[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
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