I wonder if it is simplistic of me to think that there are fewer women who are interested in Computer Science also that having subjects or areas which attract one gender more than another doesn't have to be a problem and doesn't have to be because it is being actively discouraged.
I wonder if any male dominated environment would feel uncomfortable to women and a female dominated environment could feel uncomfortable to men. I have worked in one small office environment which did feel pretty testosterone charged. There were not that many developers to begin with and no female developers. The only women in the company were basically reception and admin. When conversations were had about past experiences with recruiting female developers, remarks were made about finding them like "a chocolate fireguard", very tasty but not a lot of use. I had worked at other larger companies which had had some female developers. I had known some extremely competent ones. I thought it would have done some of the staff good to have met some of those. One of the male project managers had his sexuality questioned due to coming into work wearing a jumper. The company at one point had some representatives in from a recruitment agency. One of the representatives was an attractive young professional woman. You would have thought from the reaction of some of the staff that they hadn't seen a woman before. I found the whole attitude very juvenile and like being back at high school. This was just one place and I hope an exception and not the rule. -- 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.
