Geek culture is not entirely heterodox. But it is somewhat heterodox. The key thing is that to be accepted usually you have to do something both different and

Geek culture is not entirely heterodox. But it is somewhat heterodox. The key thing is that to be accepted usually you have to do something both different and unusual, but excel it at in your own way. Shameless plug: some examples of my paper airplanes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/einhverfr http://www.flickr.com/photos/einhverfr I think there are many more girl geeks than folks think. But in some areas, they are very much under-represented. The problem though is that "tech" here is used as a very narrow way. I think if there is a female sysadmin who runs an accounting system for a rice manufacturing plant, that she would be a "woman in tech" as would a self-employed consultant that hacks on open source software and implements it for customers. But the "women in tech" lists are not about women working in tech.... And that's part of the problem.