Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My university has programs to encourage women to enroll in > engineering and women tend to be favoured for jobs here but still > the percentage of female engineering students is less than 5%. Why > is that? No idea but certainly not because they are being "driven > out". Every effort is made to attract them to engineering and CS > but there are just not that many interested.
In the catholic countries, where boys an girls (afaik) are seperated until highschool, there is a higher pecentage number of females among mathematicians. I once saw a map showing the percentage number of females among mathematicians in European countries. There was a clear change of color along the Alps. I don't know if such a color map can be generalized this to explain behavior on GNU/Linux mailing lists or the popularity of female-only skiing courses. -- Niels L Ellegaard http://dirac.ruc.dk/~gnalle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
