How many Women do we have on Edugeek

[Advocate]

Obviously I am aware of Little Miss, but how many other women techies do we have here?

 

I work in HE and there are two of us, and about 20 guys. One of our researchers is undertaking a project to address the gender imbalance in terms of the women entering the computing and IT industries. I have been asked to get involved in this project for obovious reasons and would like to see how many women techies there are in education.

[clareq]

I'm here! The only woman in a team of five.

[powdarrmonkey]

Female Techs - EduGeek.net

[solitaire89]

I'm here too - girly tech on my own!

[Little-Miss]

Slightly concerned as to why i was the obvious one! LOL!!

[Advocate]

Thanks Powdarrmonkey

[Advocate]

Just I see your posts regularly lol, its good to see that Female Techs group has 40 memebers

[srochford]

Slightly concerned as to why i was the obvious one! LOL!!

 

Could be something to do with your (loud!) signature ??? :-)

[Little-Miss]

Could be something to do with your (loud!) signature ??? :-)

 

And theres me thinking it was because i was sooo helpful!

[Advocate]

Admins - Any chance I could have the numbers of female and male members of edugeek for use in the project I am involved in?

[featured_spectre]

Do you realise how much work that would be for the admins?!

 

Also, Ashman91, whilst technically a bloke, has female tendencies....

[AshMan91]

That remains to be seen

[witch]

Slightly concerned as to why i was the obvious one! LOL!!

 

Slightly concerned as to why I wasn't!

[rad]

I work with a female Tech (although it seems I do all the tech work nowadays)

[mattx]

I'm known as Mandy at the weekends - but don't tell anyone.

[Domino]

I'm known as Mandy at the weekends - but don't tell anyone.

 

That wasn't your username on here too was it...?

 

otherwise we'll have some very disappointed edugeekers...

[mattx]

That wasn't your username on here too was it...?

 

otherwise we'll have some very disappointed edugeekers...

 

SSssshhhhh - I told you NOT to tell anyone !!

[elsiegee40]

Female Techs - EduGeek.net

Slightly concerned as to why I wasn't!

 

Me too!

 

Then there's chrrb, Andy, Jax, leco...

[Ashers]

I have a female apprentice, who is due to finish and be fully paid up member of the team next April.

[Hightower]

Do you realise how much work that would be for the admins?!

 

SELECT gender FROM users WHERE gender = 'female'

[elsiegee40]

SELECT gender FROM users WHERE gender = 'female'

We don't specify our gender when we register

[Domino]

I don't think we've a gender field do we?

[Hightower]

I don't think we've a gender field do we?

 

Apparently not, but that's the only way the admins would be able to do it. Perhaps a simpler way is to create a poll allowing female members to log their vote. This would obviously only show female members that are active on the forum, but then if you got the total number of active members you would be able to work a ratio somehow.

[srochford]

Perhaps a simpler way is to create a poll allowing female members to log their vote. This would obviously only show female members that are active on the forum, but then if you got the total number of active members you would be able to work a ratio somehow.

 

Given that the average poll gets about 0.5% of the membership, I'm not sure that it would be a statistically useful exercise :-)

[powdarrmonkey]

Given that the average poll gets about 0.5% of the membership, I'm not sure that it would be a statistically useful exercise :-)

 

It gets that much?!