[olug] OT Geek women (Was: OT: After installfest)

[David Walker]

No discussion of geek women would be complete without mentioning Ada Byron 
Lovelace, the first computer programmer.
http://www.aimsedu.org/Math_History/Samples/ADA/Ada.html

On Monday 15 July 2002 02:34 pm, Daniel Pfile wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 13:39, Tanya Loughead wrote:
> > Tsk, Tsk tsk... (that's me shaking my head in feminist disapproval) ;-)
> >
> > I am surprised that bright, scientific minded guys such as yourselves
> > would make broad sweeping generalizations about women based on one or
> > two empirical studies.
> > Perhaps next time you boy-geeks go to the Crescent Moon for a few beers,
> > you'll need a girl-geek to go along with you to set you on the
> > right-minded path. heh heh
>
> Whoa.. my ring comment was a joke, not gospel. I was playing off the
> sienfeld (was it?) episode where george tried the ring thing and had it
> backfire on him. I was shocked to come back from doing laundry (yes, men
> do that..) and see the huge flame fest going on in my inbox... My bad.
>
> Anyway, how about we shift the topic more towards women in the geek
> community and computer workplace rather than some warped war of the
> sexes. I've personally met two geek women in the past couple days, which
> I think is a record. I always wondered more women don't go into the
> engineering fields, you'd think the lack of testosterone would make them
> less like to go off and do something pointless instead of creating a
> better solution in the end. Of course, that's probably offset by the
> need to 'prove themselves' in the old boys club.
>
> Anyway, talk amongst yourselves if you wish.
>
> BTW, why didn't you (Tanya) and other people go out with us afterwards
> to cresent?


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