On Oct 5, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
<snip>

> I think it is more a question of tendencies than abilities. 

<snip>

Our first two kids were boys. My wife and I, all full of high-minded book 
learnin',  were all determined that we wouldn't force "gender roles" on our 
first child. So we got him both dolls and trucks to play with. Guess what? He 
played with the dolls. He turned them into guns or crashed them into the 
trucks. Then came the two girls. My wife doesn't much like pink and hates arts 
and crafts. Daughter #1 loved pink and frilly and to this day enjoys arts and 
crafts projects. 

In my LiveCode programming class I almost always have more women than men in my 
first semester course. As a group they tend to do at least as well as, if not 
better than, the men. But the second semester course is almost always majority 
men. So in my limited pool of subjects more men than women self-select to go on 
to advanced LiveCode programming topics. I don't worry about it; I figure they 
are just choosing the things that interests them the most.

Just my $.02.

Devin

Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University


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