According to my informal survey, there are five women who work on cars
(Datsuns count) and post to the mailing list, and four wrenching women
who are the significant others of people who post to the list.
It's interesting that the majority (if not all) of the women I've seen
post to this mail list also work on their cars. People are always asking
me how I ended up working on cars. The answer is, "I bought a British
car!" I knew almost nothing about cars before I bought an MG. Once I
owned it, it was a choice between learning how to work on it or being
defeated by an inanimate object. The only people on the list who know
nothing about their cars are the people who just bought them.
007 <jmel@netcom.com> asked:
>I wonder what the sex distribution is??
I hadn't planned to do any statistical analysis. To do that, I'd need to
know how many people total are on this mailing list, and of those, how many
are female (I'm assuming everyone is one gender or the other).
Robert Dohner <rdohner@cais.cais.com> said:
> Given the number of responses concerning spouses, I wonder if more
>women work on cars that use the Internet.
This would be hard to determine because we can't poll the women who aren't
on the internet.
The people of both genders who subscribe to this mailing list are a unique
group -- we're using a high-tech medium to discuss low-tech cars. Women
are a small minority in both the computer world and the British car world
(except as s.o.'s). The women on this mailing list are the intersection
of the set of women who use the internet AND the set of women who own MG's.
I'm pleased that there are as many as five of us. :-)
Denise "that lumpy car guy" Thorpe
thorpe@kegs.saic.com
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