Girls Vs. Boys

[Joe O]

First of all, you have 70 people on your team!?<edit> I will say that our team does have about a fifty-fifty split with girls and guys. We have two girls ... Ouch... Anybody have any tips for recruiting? At this point we'd be willing to take cadavers. Hell, a dog that could fetch the crescent wrench would be great. Now to answer the question, it is all in the social conditioning. When you say "robot" people think a) Battle Bots, b) Transformers or c) Mech Assault. Now think, which demographic are these aimed toward? It is by and large males. <edit> This of course is something that is unconscious, to say the least. But really, the word robots (as well as remote control whatever) is just marketed to males so they are more naturally interested. Basically, we need to androgenize our marketing schemes if we really want to androgenize the workforce.