Are most programmers male?

[Raquel Rice]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:02:26 +0100
"James Kew" <james.kew at btinternet.com> wrote:

> "Bo M. Maryniuck" <b.maryniuk at forbis.lt> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1029229291.3186.python-list at python.org...
> >Only some punky moms,
> >who absolutely does not care about own babyes still are
> >programmers.
> 
> Oh please: there's a counter-example to that in my own small
> office. Saying that to Patricia, who is a very good C programmer,
> a very good mother to two young kids, and a softly-spoken
> Christian, would get you a well-deserved punch in the mouth.
> 
> Sterotyping women as illogical baby-factories hardly encourages
> them to enter computing. Our loss.
> 
> James

... besides being one of the stupidest things to come out of
someone's mouth.

-- 
Raquel
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