I tell young girls that computer science is a great profession for women. In my experience it is absolutely the closest I've seen to gender/race/religion neutral. People really do care more (on the whole) about the quality of your code. Maybe it's because we were ALL social misfits as kids *rbg*! Now that we're cool (heck even Volkswagen is using nerds in commercials), who knows? Maybe we'll get class conscious. I hope not.

>And I think that any woman working in what is/was considered a "primarily male profession" will have the same problem with the "work for less money" bit. For many of us it's a case of "Been there, done that....got the T-shirt...used it to throttle the boss....." (grin).