Of your hypotheses, I'm going to go with the idea of a 70:1 ratio in Java development. I've worked with a few female Java developers over the years, but if I had to guess the ratio... yeah, it actually would be in the 50:1 to 100:1 range. Same thing for java.net authors and readily-identifiable username genders in forums: 50:1 to 100:1 again (I just saw a "samantha" on jn today, and I wondered "really, or a contraction of a male name?")
That was one of the things that struck me at CodeMash: the various Microsoft technologies have attracted far more women programmers. I tweeted it at the time: http://twitter.com/invalidname/status/1105120488 . No idea what's up with that, but to compare to another developer community, I'd guess the male-female ratio at WWDC was probably 50:1, and that conference would catch some graphics and media nerds too (fields I think of as more gender-diverse than programming). I'll leave it to the rest of the thread to discuss causes and countermeasures. --Chris On Feb 16, 5:45 pm, Dianne Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Women Java Posse Listeners, > > Are you out there? Am I the only one? Can't be true. > > I'm wondering why no other women Java programmers have attended the > Java Posse Roundup in years past. This year, I suspect that the > Roundup will sell out, at 70 attendees, but once again, I may be the > only female attendee. Am I to believe that our numbers are 70:1 in > Java development? Or is it that the remote location for the Roundup > (in Crested Butte, CO) preselects against women? Or is March just a > bad time? Something else? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
