On: No Longer an Inspiration

[cgh]

I work with a lot of Indian and Chinese programmers and plenty of them are women. I've asked them about the whole "why are there so few women in programming?" thing and they look at me like I have three heads. To them, it's like saying "have you notice that accountants often have red hair?"

It's just a normal job that you get, no real stigma attached.

[walshemj → cgh]

That's because of "extreme" societal pressures to get a "good" job though engineering is often seen as third best behind Medical and Lawyers.