I would not be surprised to find women here keeping their gender private, and avoiding divisive and/or confrontational discussions.
Years ago I tried to clean up the locker room talk, and while overt sexually offensive language is prohibited that still leaves lots of uncomfortable commentary allowed, and tolerated. I believe it is a lot better there now than it was, but still not overly female friendly.
FWIW back in the 70's I hired a female technician to work part time for my kit company and she seemed competent.
In my decades working in design/manufacturing of audio gear I have encountered zero female engineers. Lots of pretty female component saleswomen no doubt to get the attention of male design engineers (it works). That said there were often women working hand stuffing PCB and other menial assembly tasks (arguably technician work). I do not recall any that aspired to advancement or understanding more about what they were working on (they generally graduated from working on the factory floor so were happy for a clean and lower stress position). I do not know if this implies some systemic sexism, it just is what it is (was?).
I see more women openly participating on a professional sound reinforcement forum I also participate on. They generally attract a parade of men bending over backwards to be helpful. I saw this also on another sound reinforcement forum, but usually at most only a handful of women.
This pursuit of building audio electronics just may not be as attractive to the smarter sex.
JR
PS: There is at least one famous book/movie about women mathematicians/software coders, and a smattering of high profile women working in high level software development/management. Currently there is a pretty high profile program (Kode with Klossy) run by a well know fashion model to attract young women into computer programming. I guess she is trying to make it Kool, and seems to enjoy some success. 8)
Years ago I tried to clean up the locker room talk, and while overt sexually offensive language is prohibited that still leaves lots of uncomfortable commentary allowed, and tolerated. I believe it is a lot better there now than it was, but still not overly female friendly.
======rulz said:
FWIW back in the 70's I hired a female technician to work part time for my kit company and she seemed competent.
In my decades working in design/manufacturing of audio gear I have encountered zero female engineers. Lots of pretty female component saleswomen no doubt to get the attention of male design engineers (it works). That said there were often women working hand stuffing PCB and other menial assembly tasks (arguably technician work). I do not recall any that aspired to advancement or understanding more about what they were working on (they generally graduated from working on the factory floor so were happy for a clean and lower stress position). I do not know if this implies some systemic sexism, it just is what it is (was?).
I see more women openly participating on a professional sound reinforcement forum I also participate on. They generally attract a parade of men bending over backwards to be helpful. I saw this also on another sound reinforcement forum, but usually at most only a handful of women.
This pursuit of building audio electronics just may not be as attractive to the smarter sex.
JR
PS: There is at least one famous book/movie about women mathematicians/software coders, and a smattering of high profile women working in high level software development/management. Currently there is a pretty high profile program (Kode with Klossy) run by a well know fashion model to attract young women into computer programming. I guess she is trying to make it Kool, and seems to enjoy some success. 8)
