Comments in this thread are - just - plain - sad.

For years, people in the IT world have bemoaned the fact that there aren't enough women in IT,
YET, when a bunch of women do something about it, the only thing most of /. people who can
be bothered to comment say are derogatory - either about the women or about the project overall.

WHO gives a flying rat's rear end if there are sweet looking pictures on the front page? This simply
attracts the younger generation. (Young girls are - like young boys - less intimidated by something
that appears friendly and that they relate to.) I can imagine a lot of 11-15 yo finding this appealing.
(Maybe some will be even younger, who knows?) They've also sprinkled their pages with funny
cartoons to keep them reading!

WHY in the nederworld does it matter if the programming paradigm isn't everyone's favourite?
Getting young women into the field is the desired outcome. They'll figure out for themselves
that there are other things in this area. They just need a way to get started. (And for those
retractors, yes, there will be a number of women who don't want or need this type of support.)
Like it or not, getting a foot into the door with whatever programming language that is *easy*
(how many of you started with basic? HUH?) keeps the interest level up. As the person
learns, they move onto more complex structures.

Really, for those who've posted these - you ought to hang your heads in shame. I bet a lot of
you didn't even look past the home page ...

We own a lovely 4 cylinder Renaut Grand Scenic - diesel, manual, has seven seats.
Extremely comfortable to both drive and be a passenger in.

Average consumption on highway - about 6 l/100 km == 47 MPG, though we've gotten
it down to 5l/100 km (56 MPG) (below specs) with careful driving at the sweet spot.
(Around town it's a bit more like 6.5 l/100km.) This is a 2006 model, so newer ones
will be even better in fuel economy.

There is no problem with either acceleration or towing and it's a good and safe family car.

I highly recommend this for your family. There are other models in existence too,
if you car to look around. They're just not made by GM or Ford ...

Until all these professions earn equal pay - we may never know.

A fairly well educated guess is, however, that if nursing (for example) paid twice as much as doing CS, I would
guarantee we'd see many more men in that field.

just my 2 euro cents worth ...

... the 409 parliamentarians who voted YES to this bill should be voted out of office.
(Does anyone have a list?)
That would be the ideal, though sadly, the majority of people don't
seem to care how these decisions affect them.

I stopped flying to the states ages ago. Now I will revise how often I fly within the EU.
Not sure if my job will be happy, but we can also do VC.

Hah! I lived in the states for a number of years,
and travelled reasonably often by car across the eastern and mid west states, and often enough
on the toll roads. The state of those roads was
deplorable!

Oh, sorry - my mistake - those were PRIVATE toll
roads .... You really think your politicians are going to earmark Tolls for upgrading the infrastructure?

Droughts: You ask any Australian, and particularly, Melbournians, if they've had any drought!

Famine: Well, there's a lot of Africans who still don't get enough to eat.

Floods: Might as well include storms, so think about the number of hurricanes in the last couple of years, and many people in Europe have been experiencing SOME flooding.

Rising water: that's a really slow effect. Mind you, eroding shore lines are a sure sign of this phenomena.

Just because you don't see it happen instanteously doesn't mean its not happening.

AND you should be GLAD its not happening instanteously!