jessica forbess wrote: > > > I couldn't help but notice this too, and I think Tammy is the first woman > > I've seen post on the wear-hard list since I've been on it. :) > > actually, I posted just a few days ago with a short message on lack of > Strong Arm boards on the market. But I do mostly lurk. Sorry for not noticing your post. :) > > No, its not stricly a man's world (nor should it be), but 5% is fairly > > consitent with the percentage of women in engineering/advanced computer > > science fields. Hopefully, wearables can quickly become more useful to > > anyone, not just the technically savy male computer engineer. But, I > > think that's the group on this list, and with the same ratio of men/women > > seen in this group. (As usual correct me if I'm wrong. ;) > > As for that whole sex ratio, I felt it was fairly equal at MIT, my alma > mater. Well, equal isn't quite right, but not 5%/95%, much closer to > 30%/70% or so, depending on the field. Where I really felt as though the > mix was poor was in faculty. And I suspect that will change as more women > graduate in higher levels. I tried to find a good resource online for percentages of women/men in engineering careers and the most recent authoritative document I found was a graduate student survey conducted by the NSF in Fall 1995. Probably not completely accurate, but they put the percentage of women in graduate engineering programs at 17.9%, which is much higher than I would have thought, but this may be because of a couple of engineering careers that seem to attract more women (e.g. chemical engineering). They had a couple of breakdowns by department with: Compsci: 22% EE: 13% > Historically, women don't waste their money on techno gadgets But they should. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning. 8) -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator // x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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