socialization definitely a factor... (Score 1)

I wanted to respond to this as I am a woman (out of college 10 years) who works in the computer science field. I realized, though, I really don't know why more women do not go into this field. I find that the ability to make a machine do something and to *create* is very seductive. Many of my women friends are programmers or engineers as well. I'm much more interested in the comments of women in my age group *not* in computer science, though I doubt that ./ has a large population of them. It would be interesting to compare the perspective of different age groups of women. I certainly hope women my age don't say things like "Guys are more computer-type people." I agree that computer science skill and interest is probably not inherently linked to gender.