We've got like 5 girls on our team, out of 20 or so active members. We're actually really gender-neutral when it comes to assigning jobs, mostly basing the meniality of the job on your grade ::cough::freshmen::cough:: than your gender.
3 of the girls are on the mechanical team, one willingly does spirit (we'd rather she not do it because she tends to come up with whacky ideas and makes us use them,) and one is sort of out in space.
and then theres the time when they complained cause we had everyone bending rods, cept they said they were too weak
so yeah. gender stuff on our team is pretty balanced (cept for the ratio. hm. we hafta fix that.)
LAST year it was a different story. (we were doing botball)
there were like 5 kids total, 4 guys and a girl, and since you can only effectively fit 3 people around a 1 ft^3 robot, and have one person programming, there were 3 guys around the robot (either got there first, or shoved their way in,) one at the computer, and we'd the girl would just sort of wander around not doing anything, eventually settling on the task of throwing legos at our heads
so. yeah.
