12-17-2009, 03:48 PM
Blankity Blank wrote:
Reading the article, the study sounds like it's less about behavior and more about environment.
As someone who works with computer graphics professionals, I find that women -- who easily make up at least 50% of the field -- decorate their spaces with geeky toys just as often as men... just with slightly different kinds of toys.
For example, where a guy might have posters, in-box action figures and logo-pins on the walls with action figures and toy guns in violent and suggestive poses scattered haphazardly around, women generally seem to go for stuff like animation-stills and oddball artwork on the walls and 1950s robots, plush dolls or wind-up toys arranged in neat rows around the work-space.
So, the specific type of geeky stuff may have been what turned off the women. Not just that the stuff was geeky.