Girls Vs. Boys

[KenWittlief]

if you look at the ratio of men and women in engineering, and in engineering schools, there are definately more male engineers in our society, esp the 'hard core' engineering fields like mechanical and electrical.

FIRST reflects this in most high school teams, but in some areas the girls who are interested in engineering are more likely to join a team than the guys are. I think because they see this as an opportunity to get their foot in the engineering door.

There are many teams where its 50:50, and some with more girls than guys.

[june_2008]

On our team we have several girls, but only two (myself included) participate in anything besides spirit/public relations/scouting. The other girls don't seem to want to get involved and that is frustrating to me, because it really is just as easy for us as it is for the boys. I wish that more girls on our team would be willing to get involved in building or programming.

[Jimbo5051]

Originally Posted by june_2008

On our team we have several girls, but only two (myself included) participate in anything besides spirit/public relations/scouting. The other girls don't seem to want to get involved and that is frustrating to me, because it really is just as easy for us as it is for the boys. I wish that more girls on our team would be willing to get involved in building or programming.

I totally agree. you no what all of these are good opinions as long as thy are not offensive.

[irishninja]

This is going to sound really sexist, and I don't mean it that way, but as a PR person and a male I talk to a lot of people about robotics, espeically incoming students. I get a lot more of "I could never do that, I'm not smart enough, I don't know how to do that" from girls than guys ( I get it from guys as well but less so). I always try to tlel everybody, guys as well as girls, that it doesn't matter. My team learns from osmosis. We just absorb knowledge. Id dint' know anything, and I'm still not the most technical person, but I know more than I did. I don't know what it is, maybe just societal impositions engrained in our brains that guys have to be one way and girls have to be another. But my team has about 1/4 team members are girls, and most of them are in PR.