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Originally Posted by serenagh
For the past two years, I've been the captain and drive coach of my primarily male FRC team. I'm a graduating senior, and our coming leadership is male (with the exception of our programming captain).
My all female FTC team has girls in all of our leadership positions, and we are heavily student run.
I suspect that high rates of female leadership in mostly-male teams, especially when those positions are decided on skill and merit has to do with the level of commitment, dedication, and passion it takes to stick out a male heavy environment in order to participate in something you love doing.
I'm also curious about female representation within drive teams. During the Einstein finals, of the 8 teams that made it (4 drivers apiece), only one (1405's human player, IIRC), was female. 1/32. This stunned me. Thoughts?
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I agree with your hypothesis on why we find more female leaders on male dominated teams.
I am also this years drive coach (student drive coaches have been female as far as I know - again of pure merit) and even just attending and being on drive team for one regional the lack of females on drive team was obvious. I don't think it has anything to do with teams intentionally putting males on drive team but more so a thing of intimidation by the current abundance of males on drive team. Like I said even before I became a leader on the team I was hesitant because I thought it was super intimidating. Had I seen more girls doing the same things it may have felt a bit more inviting to me.
This might apply to drive team as well - and I think its completely subconscious.
I now have come to love being on drive team and meeting and competiting with all the new people regardless of gender.