[JesseK]

I'm not sure what all of the fuss in this thread is. Some of us have been working for years to get a roughly even ratio. With that, girls will naturally make their way onto and off of a drive team.

Years ago I was against organizations which gave scholarships specifically to girls entering engineering in college. Why punish males for the decisions of the females' parents? Then I had an epiphany - the parents were the root cause and the female-only scholarships were merely a residual effect of someone trying to encourage a better balance. It was at that point I really got on board with some of the non-engineering things my team does.

For a different and culture-based perspective, watch your favorite animated movie on any child-centric TV network. The TV ads that are aimed at children these days still fall along traditional gender role lines. It seems to me like there are two major ways to mitigate this: products like Goldie Blocks, or encouragement of parents to simply turn off the TV and put Legos in their daughters' hands.

Full disclosure, we've had a girl on our drive team for 2 years now. This year we'll have a girl on the drive team and most likely a girl at human player. The girl on the drive team has shown a lot of maturity since her Sophomore year, which is why she's been on the drive team for longer than any other student in our history. Along the lines of what Libby said in her post, she is there because she is a remarkable decision maker, not because she's female.