One thing I'd like to ask the women in this forum: If you'd grown up back in the day before tech was cool and techies were (generally) just nerds with no money, would you have still been interested in tech? My recollection from my teenage years in the UK in the late 70s and early 80s, emptying my Post Office savings account to buy one of the first batch of 10^5 BBC micros, trekking all over London searching for a Rub…
Yes. My obsession with computers, which did not start until after I met some super geeks after college, has COST me tens of thousands of dollars, more if you count rent for my lab and patents. It has cost me thousands of hours of time when I could've been reading literature, networking, cooking, going to med school, or a hundred other things. It has been worth every fucking penny and minute and the best joy and highl…
>There just aren't that many of us
That was my point really - female geeks/nerds existed back in the day before tech was cool.
It's just the natural level of interest (NOT ability) seemed to be more like 10% rather than 50%.