Ratio of male to female comp. geeks

DanTaylor · 05-03-2006, 12:14 PM

I have always wondered how many female computer geeks there are out there. I rarely meet any, and am wondering if this is just because of the area I live in, or what(although that doesn't make sense because I live about 45 min from microsoft). So here is a poll to find the ratio of male to female.

puntjuh · 05-03-2006, 12:20 PM

Male here.. live in holland. but i know 34 female computer geeks.. unfortunatly they are not a member of this forum. So there are female computer geeks.

aysiu · 05-03-2006, 02:45 PM

A similar poll was posted on the Ubuntu Forums, and women turned out to be 4.28% of the users who answered the poll.

Mara · 05-03-2006, 03:11 PM

Such question is posted from time to time.. Last one was: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=394909

marlon2006 · 05-03-2006, 03:17 PM

Macho here.

kate45 · 05-03-2006, 10:57 PM

(Grinning) Not only am I a female geek, I am an old female geek.......hmmmm am I a dying breed??? Hey, a new category....An old <47ish> female, southern belle geek.......yes, and now that the younguns are grown, I am in college, majoring in computer science, and a Crimson Scholor too. Never knew I had it in me.

sailu_mvn · 05-03-2006, 11:16 PM

I am a Female Geek. Tech Savvy, Young in thoughts and very much into Linux. Cant live without it

kencaz · 05-03-2006, 11:21 PM

Hmmm, maybe we could start a dating sub-forum... LQ-Dating... NOT...

does knowing the 9:1 male to female ratio really matter...

KC

DanTaylor · 05-04-2006, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kencaz

Hmmm, maybe we could start a dating sub-forum... LQ-Dating... NOT...

The theme could be.. "Connecting geeks- for a lifetime"

efi · 05-08-2006, 11:17 AM

I am a female user and Linux made my life easy.With Windows I was always upset because there was always one problem at least every day with that kind of system...

Gogul · 05-08-2006, 11:39 AM

I posted a thread similar to this thought obviously I didn't search well enough before doing it.

The number of girl comp geeks I know is something like 6 though I'm personally interested in ratio just to see how things are changing in general.

Gogul · 05-08-2006, 11:52 AM

I posted a thread similar to this though obviously I didn't search well enough before doing it.

The number of female comp geeks I know is something like 6 though I'm personally interested in ratio just to see how things are changing in general.

Edit: not sure how I did it but noticed I posted this twice... uhm sorry must be the cruddy weather making me feel sleepy lol

hockeyman_102 · 05-08-2006, 01:15 PM

i think in my enitre cs graduating class we had 4 out of about 300 that were females. You guys ever see the girls of gaming?? Toms also did an article about this - lost the link though.

Xolo · 05-08-2006, 02:45 PM

I stopped looking for the female geeks - there don't appear to be any in my area. spent my entire school career in all-male classes, all hope is lost =P despair! *cough*
Well there are female geeks. they are just using better camouflage then us male geeks.

Gogul · 05-08-2006, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Xolo

I stopped looking for the female geeks - there don't appear to be any in my area. spent my entire school career in all-male classes, all hope is lost =P despair! *cough*
Well there are female geeks. they are just using better camouflage then us male geeks.

well 3 or 4 of the females interested I do know look too pretty to be geeks

seriously I think the general attitude of people has changed because computers are so much apart of out lives.

in conclusion I think it's now cool to be a "geek"... well the animated variety with gsoh anyway