[sdiy] Female sdiy'ers

[nicolas]

I teach a very introductory type electronics night class and the gender balance isn't too bad - usually about 30-40% women.  The class is as non-mathematical as possible and tries to emphasise the musical side of the projects we build, so perhaps that has some influence.

Cheers,
Nicolas

--- On Wed, 17/6/09, Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:

> From: Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Female sdiy'ers
> To: "sdiy DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Received: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 5:34 AM
> On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Ian
> Fritz wrote:
> 
> > But I think there is a case for them being somewhat
> predisposed to other fields. I think, for example, there are
> many more females in the softer sciences, such as biology,
> psychology, etc.  So I'd say there seem to be natural
> differences in interests but not in intelligence or
> ability.
> 
> 
> The sophomore-level "Introduction to Signal Processing"
> class I teach is required of both Electrical and Computer
> Majors _and_ Biomedical Engineering majors. Since BME has
> historically not offered very many BME classes in the
> summer, the summer session of 2025 tends to be dominated by
> Biomed students - about 3/4 of the class is Biomed in the
> summer.
> 
> When I teach in the summer, the male-female ratio is
> probably around 3 to 2. In the fall or spring, which it's
> dominated by ECE majors, it's probably more like 10 to 1.
> 
> Computer Science departments around the country have had
> plummeting enrollments in general. Our College of Computing
> recently went through a major restructuring and rebranding
> effort, and female enrollment shot up. Interestingly, they
> didn't really change the core of the material - they just
> did a better job at putting the CS material into societal
> context.
> 
> - Aaron
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