If it's fair to compare a woman's situation in a mostly-men field to a man's situation in a mostly-women field...
Then, mentally putting myself in such a situation, I would probably feel pretty strange going to a club of more than, say, 5 other people who were all women and trying to socialize with them, unless they were already good friends of mine. And I would feel much less strange reading a book about a subject I was interested in that happened to have all female characters. In fact, when a book tries to vary gender, my mind wanders to thoughts of which character is in what role and whether someone else would think it's sexist or not, which is distracting. If it's NOT fair to make such a comparison, however, we're in no position to speak. Instead, we need to find some of the women we're trying to entice into computer science and get their input on how much this matters and what should be done. Then we're not presuming to know what's right. Which, despite our best efforts, might just be patronizing. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
