Re:women in technology related fields (Score 1)

I think a lot of people like to believe that there are some kind of biological things that make guys think "logically" and make women better at jobs that involve human interaction. Besides my mother, I can't think of another instance of a woman I have met who can't think "logically". Women are however a lot better at masking the fact that they are thinking logically - I know I pretended to be stupid in front of all new people I met all throughout high school. Of course I paid for it when I found out time after time how stupid the guy I was with was. Now at university, I've had more trouble trying to help guys with algorithms than I ever have had with the girls. That could be just because there are way more guys around, and thus a higher number of less logically thinking ones. In any case I don't think there is anything biological about guys being better at logical things (in fact I've heard that women have better communication links between both sides of their brains than men do ... which could mean more creativity, and thus better problem solving, which is a critical skill in programming). If you want girls in CE/EE/CSC the best way might be to go out there and get them interested in how cool parts are. Unfortuanatly, girls have lower self esteem than guys do just at that point that they are choosing their careers and interest... their coolness / uncoolness is very important to them and computers are linked to the nerdy thing..which I so don't understand. If girls just had a few more role models and glimpses of women in tech, many more would get into it. But then how do you get more role models without the role models to begin with?