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Re: What's the gender demographic of your team leadership?

Our team membership consists of ~25% girls this year, which is way down from last year. Most of last year's outgoing seniors were female, which brought down the percentage quite a bit for this year. Also, we did major recruitment last year, and our team is larger than it's ever been, but most of the new recruits were male (some females, but many stopped coming due to involvement in other activities).

That said, our leadership is predominantly female.

Leadership positions:
Team Captain: female
Mechanical Lead: female
Programming Lead: female, male
Media Lead: male
Strategy Lead: female
Social Media Lead: female
Safety Lead: female
Communications Lead: female

7/8 of our leadership positions were female. Our leads are chosen by nominations, elections, and confirmation by our lead mentor, so girls don't have positions just because they're girls.

I would attribute this partly to the higher maturity levels of girls in high school, at least on our team. Many of the boys who sought positions, and weren't elected remain bitter and upset about it...nearly a year later. Overall, I would say on our team, girls bring a higher level of maturity and dedication to the team, and therefore win lead positions.

Additional Info:

Drive team:
Driver: male
Manipulator: female
Human Player: male
Drive Coach: male

Last year's leadership:
Leadership positions:
Team Captain: female, male
Mechanical Lead: female
Programming Lead: male
Media Lead: female
Safety Lead: female
Communications Lead: male

A little more balanced, 4/7 were female. The drive team makeup last year was demographically identical to this year (including respective positions).
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