I have always thought that maybe the dispartiy of men to women in the IT industry might be linked to human evolution. I believe that a woman's traditional activities over the course of human evolution would have encouraged social interaction much moreso than a man's. This probably would've meant that those women who were more adapted to being social had a greater chance of reproducing, so, via natural selection it seems plausible to me that women are more social creatures than men are. Also, in my experience, I have observed that women tend to be a lot more people and relationship oriented than men. Now, Think about what you had to do to become as good as you are with computers? I don't know if I am a typical "geek" or not but I do know that I spent about 3 years of my life coding from the time I was 17-20, and I can tell you that learning about computers is often times a solitary activity. Given the fact that most women that I know are much more happy when around other people, it makes perfect sense that often times they would not be interested in a field that almost requires so much solitary learning and concentration. just a crackpot theory.
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I have always thought that maybe the dispartiy of men to women in the IT industry might be linked to human evolution. I believe that a woman's traditional activities over the course of human evolution would have encouraged social interaction much moreso than a man's. This probably would've meant that those women who were more adapted to being social had a greater chance of reproducing, so, via natural selection it seems plausible to me that women are more social creatures than men are. Also, in my experience, I have observed that women tend to be a lot more people and relationship oriented than men. Now, Think about what you had to do to become as good as you are with computers? I don't know if I am a typical "geek" or not but I do know that I spent about 3 years of my life coding from the time I was 17-20, and I can tell you that learning about computers is often times a solitary activity. Given the fact that most women that I know are much more happy when around other people, it makes perfect sense that often times they would not be interested in a field that almost requires so much solitary learning and concentration. just a crackpot theory.