[sdiy] Female sdiy'ers

[Samppa Tolvanen]

What about a slight distinction between users and tinkers?

 I don't know if it's social emphasis starting from very early age,
but my mother still feels astonished by the amount of things taken
apart by me before my 4th birthday (Uh, what makes a clock tick?) -
and recalls me saying by the radio, once again, opened up: "When I
grow old, I can fix these" Well, I can't or Won't ;=)

Females - these social things going on from early age - stereotype. I
can follow two about 3 year old girls playing outside, when I'm on
balcony and the do and try all kinds of social schemes there, from
playing God with Ants: "That larger one bite the smaller one! No it
didn't! Yes it did, and now YOU will die, STOMP" to "I'll go tell my
mother" - which is clearly something that boys WON'T do, at least
before getting caught :D

But back to the original subject from even more non-empirical methods:
If there are any genetics involved: Males are the ones wanting to know
what makes the clock tick, while females are more interested it giving
the right time.

This is my own experience even with those females I know from the
technical field, the're shying away from the "boredom" of creating the
implementation and rather using their technical expertise to use it.

Samppa