Male or female??

piersk

Ok, here's something that Ive been wondering for all of about 24 seconds...

The majority of programmers are (without meaning to be sexist) male, are they not? Well, lets put this to the test.

Dont really need any text in your reply, just vote in the poll...

daynah

I guess I'm not in the majority.... but I've been use to that since college. 😉 I'd like to know who the other fellow female programmers are though. 🙂

Rhiannon

Out of the 4 student programmers in my office - I work on a college campus - I'm the only female. But of my bosses two out of the three are female. Interesting.

sid

male - but i study witha bunch of femi-programmers...

mrmufin

class Mufin {

var $sex;
var $age;
var $height;
var $weight;
var $income;

function Mufin($a) {
	$this->sex = $a['sex'];
	$this->age = $a['age'];
	$this->height = $a['height'];
	$this->weight = $a['weight'];
	$this->income = $a['income'];
}
}

$mrmufin = new Mufin(array('age'=>4,'sex'=>'m','height'=>'70 inches','weight'=>'165 lbs','income'=>0,)); 
$msmufin = new Mufin(array('age'=>32,'sex'=>'f','height'=>'60 inches','weight'=>'105 lbs','income'=>'lots',));

Any more questions?

dar-k

Ole fashioned male progammur....zzzz

marianna

I'm female

In undergrad, there was a slight difference between the number of males and females, but in grad school it's severe
I also work and am one of 2 females in my group of 18

jayant

Very true that most of the techie folks are guys.
In my college:-
Course1 :
30 students (22 males, 8 females)
Course2:
20 students (17 males, 3 females)

I happen to be lucky to be in course1. more girlz 😉 <evil grin>

psy

Originally posted by mrmufin

class Mufin {

var $sex;
var $age;
var $height;
var $weight;
var $income;

function Mufin($a) {
	$this->sex = $a['sex'];
	$this->age = $a['age'];
	$this->height = $a['height'];
	$this->weight = $a['weight'];
	$this->income = $a['income'];
}
}

$mrmufin = new Mufin(array('age'=>4,'sex'=>'m','height'=>'70 inches','weight'=>'165 lbs','income'=>0,)); 
$msmufin = new Mufin(array('age'=>32,'sex'=>'f','height'=>'60 inches','weight'=>'105 lbs','income'=>'lots',));

Any more questions? [/B]

that was great hahahahaha 😃

Weedpacket

Originally posted by mrmufin
Any more questions?

Yeah: when are you going to use International units like a civilised person?

ShawnD

i'm 5'10" and all man
i dont know how much that is in cm though 🙁

mrmufin

Originally posted by Weedpacket

Yeah: when are you going to use International units like a civilised person?

International units? You mean like weight in 'stones', height in 'hands' and age in UNIX timestamps?

Hmmm... but I never recall ever claiming to be a civilised person.

ShawnD

he/she/it means Metres and Grams, you know, the system that every country in the world but the US uses pretty much 😉

bastien

no wait...pheww still am

mw-dnb

Originally posted by Weedpacket

Yeah: when are you going to use International units like a civilised person?

how do you calculate pounds > stones

I way 13 stones... stones??? what the hell is a stone??

Bunkermaster

Originally posted by mrmufin

class Mufin {

var $sex;
var $age;
var $height;
var $weight;
var $income;

function Mufin($a) {
	$this->sex = $a['sex'];
	$this->age = $a['age'];
	$this->height = $a['height'];
	$this->weight = $a['weight'];
	$this->income = $a['income'];
}
}

[/B]

class BunkerMaster extends Mufin {
	var $Location;
	function BunkerMaster ($Blah) {
		$this->Location = $Blah['Location'];
	}
}

$DaBunkerMaster = new BunkerMaster(array('age'=>29,'sex'=>'M','height'=>'200cm','weight'=>'130 KG','income'=>'do not ask it hurts', 'Location'=>'Europe' ));

[/B]

There ya go. Worked in many countries over the years (France, UK, USA, NL, etc.) and these offices I honnored with my charisma always smelled like gym lockers... Guess most of us are guys... Things change... I work alone anyway

xentrix

male ;-)

but I know some good female programmers! ;-)

Merve

Okay, there are males and females who use PHP (duh!) but this is an interesting psychological question. I think that more guys (I'm not being chauvinist here) computer program because for people think that guys do all the programming. A lot of girls don't want to computer program because they are told that girls don't computer program and that it's a guy thing. We aren't directly told this, but we are told this in more subtle ways. When a girl sees more guys at a computer camp, she might think that more guys computer program, and so, girls don't computer program as much.
Another reason is that guys originally invented the computer. In the time when the computer was invented (not the PC, the computer), guys used to work, whereas women used to stay at home and work (generally speaking). And so, guys did the computer programming, also because women stayed away from electric stuff; it was a man's job to take care of that.
And after all my rambling on, I hope you are enlightened (even though you could have thought of that off the top of your head)

goldbug

Man, I feel sorry for any PHP programmers who are currently floating somewhere between either choice. Also, those who didn't have a gender to begin with, or are hermaphrodites. WHERE WILL THEY CLICK!? THIS IS SO INCONSIDERATE! 🙂 🙂

goldbug

Originally posted by Rhiannon
Out of the 4 student programmers in my office - I work on a college campus - I'm the only female. But of my bosses two out of the three are female. Interesting.

Holy crap! Are you Rhiannon of warpednet IRC-land? If so, small (digital) world!