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I think it's importaint to point out that according to the 2000 census there were slightly more women living in the US then men. Also in general men are slightly more likely to enlist in the US army, and since the country is at war then that would leave even more women outnumber men in internet use.

Once you've thought about that, think of all the initiatives trying to get women interested in computers and computer sciences:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wics/
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/wccce/program04/Papers/mark.h tml
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/girls.html
http://www.awc-hq.org/

We're defiantly not doing those things for young men.

Then due to a natural progression, if you're going to use a computer at all you might as well be online. So of course there's more women using the internet than men.

And don't forget that population of young women addicted to those "women run alt-pornography sites" like the suicide girls and gods girls etc.

There is something peculiar about how far you have to dig to even find what she worked on (optimizing compilers, apparently) and no one here seems to have heard of her. If you look at the history of the Lovelace Awards, she's only noted as "First woman to be named IBM Fellow", in contrast to "Adele Mildred Koss: Developed the first compilers" or "Betty Holberton: One of the six original programmers of ENIAC".

• Women in Linux HOWTO
• Association for Women in Computing
• LinuxChix

There is a nice picture a her here. just if anyone is interested...

it was Ada Lovelace

//rdj