> What if the shiny diamond like thing happened to be one of these new
> fangled diamond semiconductors i keep hearing about...
>
> But seriously - i am currently a university student in the UK studying
> engineering and less than 10% of my course are female, which is a bit
> depressing really. I do a language as an optional extra and there are as
> many girls in a class of 16 as there are amongst 120 engineering students.
> I have to say that i think in many respects they make better engineers
> than most guys who never seem to be able to swallow their pride and listen
> to other peoples ideas, let alone accept them or promote them.

        In the case of the university I went to there was a vast difference in the
percentage of women depending on which discipline you were speaking of. For
example, in Electrical it was about 30% female, in Computer it was a little
lower. In most other disciplines it reached 50%, and I believe in Mining
there were more women then men enrolled. So things are certainly looking up.
TTYL

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