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Behind linkbuilding-strategies: What is the actual sex-ration here? How many female website developers are around compared to the male ones? After all, it is a business with little discremination, I guess, but most tech-related sectors are traditionally male-dominated.
I'm male - how about you?
Crystal Pegasus.
(MHes retreats quickly)
Uh-oh, moderator might have to be moderated.
I'm male, and I don't need to look ;)
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:DDDD Sorry!
Tri weeekly to try weekly to try weakly...
Haha. nice wordplay :)
Are they male? Are they female?
When talking about requesting links, is the element of doubt enough to entice the young males?
My boyfriend is a Web Developer. He said the one of the main reasons he loves me is because I'm as much a web geek as he is. Most of our weekends are spent in front of our computers. If I walk to the fridge, I give him a kiss on my way. If he's going to the washroom, he gives me a kiss on his way. It's hot.
So tell me male developers - how sexy is a female developer?
I'm a female webdeveloper.
To seriously answer the Q - I think the gender is swiftly shifting in web development, over the years I've seen a lot of women get into design and page production but not as many in programming. I have my opinions on why that is, but will withhold them as they are only opinions and unfounded - but I would venture to guess close to half of web designers are indeed women.
Well, I don't think I ever met one personally - which doesn't mean that I have met an awful lot of male developers outside of forums. But didn't our host Brett meet his wife here on WW?
(It's been a day.)
I tried that, but my fingers were too fat for the abacus.
Lessee, I write compliant xhtml by hand, and css, can debug php, but not program it (this is a deliberate choice...I already know too many obsolete programming languages...saving my brain space for other things) and I have a desk full of techno gadgets that makes guy geeks drool. ;-)
I've tried various wysigygs, including Dreamweaver, but I've hated them all. Much prefer working with a text editor and an open browser window.
As for the other question, my personal experience is that men of taste like geeky smart girls quite a lot. I have a cohort (possibly a horde) of admirers currently...mostly magnetized by my geekiness and my sexy poetry about being geeky (well, and the rest of my cute self ;-) ).
My impression is that are more men than women doing this...this is based solely on the numbers of men vs. women on the various webmaster fora I frequent.
Alas, though, this may be skewed - being a male I can vouch for our half having the predisposition to blurt out a question long before we'd crack open a book or track down a resource which would render the question unnecessary. :-)
Add to that many women browse incognito to avoid interference - this thread alone has revealed several women webmasters who I would have certainly thought were male by their nicknames.
thought were male by their nicknames
On fora people seem to assume I am male (I'm not) for some reason, though I think my username is fairly neutral. They often assume I have been in the army too, which I haven't.
I know a few other females in this line of work, but I am surprised there are not more, it's the perfect work from home job which suits a lot of women when their kids are young especially.
Spot on Lindsay. My SO and I are sitting side by side at our computers as well. In the livingroom btw, no seperate computer room for us.
[edited by: Armande at 9:57 am (utc) on July 23, 2006]
Well, exactly! PLUS, it's essentially discremination-free, as you can act in a sex-neutral way or even fake being a man if dealing with potential chauvinists.
