Girls on Teams

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We have about 10 girls on a team of 35 but over 2/3 of the leadership positions are manned (or womanned?) by girls.

Team Captain: 1
Mechanics: 3
Programming: 1
Business: 5

Note: I'm not counting those girls that are super new members, or come irregularly.

Something to think about with a lot of girls doing PR or business related stuff is that people tend to be drawn more to what their friends are doing. And in my experience, a lot of girls are friends with mostly girls, and the same goes for boys. 90% of the boys on my team do something other than business while only 50% of girls do. When I joined, a girl I was friends with was doing business, so I did too. When my (female) friends joined most of them decided to do business also; it's more comfortable to work with people you know. New male members already know team members from outside of school and will then join whatever it is they are doing: which is mechanical or programming.

I do wish that someone had pushed me out of my comfort zone when I first joined, so that I could've tried some teams outside of business even though I've grown to really enjoy it. Honestly, I think the best way to address gender divisions is to really encourage girls to do things they aren't really traditionally expected to do or think they're not smart enough for, even if their friends aren't doing that.