>To get more women we need to change the image of the profession. I'm of the opinion that females just don't want to do software development and that decision i

>To get more women we need to change the image of the profession. I'm of the opinion that females just don't want to do software development and that decision is made really young. I think the change we need to make is less about the profession and more about the people in the profession. We need to make it a field that seems open to women. Currently it isn't. I don't have a daughter, but I'd be very hesitant to suggest to her to go into the SW field. BTW, my sister tinkered with PCs as a kid. It is interesting that she went on to get a degree in statistics and me in computer science. She works in policy now, and me in CS -- despite the fact that both of us had very similar achievement paths through HS. To this day she is better at most maths than I am, but most people seem to assume I'm better (at least when it comes up).