On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:02:26PM -0700, Andrew Lias <anrwlias at hotmail.com> wrote: > I wonder. Sure, that may be part of it, but why science, in particular? > Virtually every field of endeavor was dominated by white males for most of > Western history, but you don't see women shying away from other disciplines > that used to be male dominated. For that matter, how do we account for the > lack of women in such fields as computer sciences that only became popular > subjects of study well *after* the feminist movement? > > I think that this is something at fault, but I don't know if it is > something as simple as a lack of applicable role models? Grace Hopper, Ada Hutchinson (unsure of last name), many others. There's definitely no lack of female role models in computer science. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp