Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jamcmullan From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: men/women ratio in CS Message-ID: <7245@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 16:58:49 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.7245 Posted: Thu Mar 15 16:58:49 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 02:14:47 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 I am always greatly encouraged that CS related work is not a male or female dominated work-field perhaps because it is still a fairly young profession. The more conferences and seminars etc I go to, the more the split is getting to be 50/50 men and women, well alright perhaps more like 60/40. Beware before making generalizations. These are certainly not the same conferences I am going to!! I think the ratio is more like 90/10 (and that's if you include the "pretty women" in the booths)!! The shame of it is, I agree that CS is too young a profession to be considered "men's work" or "women's work". I guess the women got weeded out at a much younger age when they were encouraged to drop mathematics and take english. --from the sssstickkky keyboard of J.A.M. ...!{allegra|decvax}!watmath!jamcmullan