Gender Poll - 2009

[waterhead]

Male, last time I checked. I'll check again, tho.

Now I went and distracted myself.......

Artesia, your description of yourself is how I describe the perfect women! I know that I am making a fool of myself, but I think that I .... am .... falling .... for .... you!

Back to the topic. I read that because of the differences in the male/female brain, that women are actually better at math. But how many young women pursue this in school, or as a career? Their interests are centered around "relationships" and how to attract the best mate.

My brother raised his two girls with education as a priority. He didn't even let them date! I thought that this was horrible (no dating), but they are now very intelligent college grads. They attracted intelligent, college educated men, so I guess it worked.

[Bemk]

I think that when you train enough both males as females can be brilliant. I still see in my maths class that there are only 4 females, in a class of about 24 people.

It is athematics B, meaning that it's more aimed at calculations which have to do with space, content and surface. This comes down to really complex formulas which you have to simplify and solve.

The rest of the mathematics class (the female side I mean) is at Mathematics A, which is calculating with statistics. Most of the time this is considered to be easier.

What they've done is take all classes of a specific year, and a specific level and put them together, and then split it up into 2 classes, mathematics A and mathematics B.

I like this girl who wants to be a nurse, but I think that she could be a doctor, or even better if she wants to.

[Artesia]

Paul I'm flattered!

[waterhead]

Paul I'm flattered!

Aw shucks!
(kicks toe in sand)

[Mulenmar]

Another guy, another nerd.
What can I say, it's quite absurd.

Why do we call them threads and not strings?

The answer to that is string theory, and it has come unraveled.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm just going to hang around a bit, find interesting things and reply accordingly, look for LFS info (needle in a haystack ), and read some noose-- I mean news.

[Hal343]

Another male here. However, my ex-wife and most of my girlfriends have balanced work and family
quite well. My ex-wife actually worked in a sawmill, and my last girlfriend was a teacher. I know a young woman locally who is in university as a programmer, and is learning a lot about linux, since she also works in the uni IT department. Its actually unix, if its the same VAX they were using ten years ago when I went through, but its all transferable.

[Jollie_kitten]

I'm a girl (and proud girlfriend of a Linux geek )

[mariane_08]

I just upped the ladies count to 5. \/\/00+!

Like qv was saying, I agree that much of this is cultural. And I'm going to speak strictly about United States culture, because this is where I spent my entire adult life.

Despite the big steps we've taken towards equality in recent decades, there are some basic teachings the culture continues to perpetuate.
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Well let me up that to 6!

I had wondered about asking this question because as a ""liberated" woman I was curious. I see plenty of computer literate women in my day to day work and is my impression the figure is higher than relfected in the forum. I'm 36, unmarried no kids so I guess by the above criteria I'm rapidly heading towards failier!

[Jollie_kitten]

Oh, and one positive thing I also noticed: in open-source communities, women, though they may be few, are respected and treated as eqy\ual by guys ; which I really believe is a step forward

[computerophil]

I checked to be sure - the result was I am still a male