What's the gender demographic of your team leadership?

[evanperryg]

Total team members: 50-something
Total number of girls: 12
Co-captains: 1 male, 1 female
Asst. captain: male
Scouting leaders: 2 male
Mechanical leaders: 1 male, 1 female
Programming leader: male
Electrical leader: male
Business/Outreach leader: female

Total number of active mentors: 15
Female mentors: 4
2338 alums: 3
No engineering background: 3

EDIT: oops, I messed up and posted in the wrong thread. All these threads about the same thing is getting confusing. Here's that post:

I'm an awkward high school student (well, high school graduate now I guess) and awkward people do awkward things. But, just because I'm awkward doesn't give me the excuse to flirt with people unnecessarily. Although I've had ample opportunity to flirt, I wouldn't consider it. Why? FIRST competitions are a mostly-professional setting (For the sake of keeping this on-topic I'll skip why I said "mostly"), and keeping it professional means keeping it in your pants. Now, that doesn't mean avoiding girls like the plague, trying to make sure you don't come off as "flirty," as that would just perpetuate the issue of alienating girls in FIRST, and in STEM as a whole. Even if you don't intend on flirting with someone, basic perception of body language can tell you if someone thinks you're flirting with them. Know when to chill out, and don't overstep boundaries. If something does go too far, then yes, the offending party should be disciplined.

Some food for thought: We have FTC teams that all prospective FRC students who didn't participate in FLL spend one season with before they become a part of the FRC team the next year. (basically, if you were in FLL, you can join FRC in your first year of high school robotics. If not, you do FTC your first year and FRC for the remaining years) I noticed something kind of interesting, though- the proportion of girls on the FTC teams was much higher than the FRC team. This would seem to indicate that the issue of getting girls involved with FIRST is due to the environment on a FIRST team, not recruiting methods. It could also indicate that somewhere in the difference between FTC and FRC lies the reason FRC teams struggle to retain girls. So, what could a team do to make their shop, and general team dynamic, more welcoming to women?