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I hope you're not serious. I'm a geek, mind and body. Most of my life (school, high school, sports, socializing, university) I was part of the marginalized, made fun of, or outright abused groups. Incidentally, many women had it a lot better that I (they were popular, attractive, outgoing, talkative, ...).

Just because some of us (programmers) managed to unexpectedly strike gold (in this economy) doesn't make us "dominant" in most areas of life.

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It's not about "dominance in most areas of life" but rather in a team of developers or communities of developers.

Programming is still lucrative enough for most people that they chose this over the job they were originally trained for. That is one of the reasons (and not the only one) women want to be part of such groups, and there they are the minority.

Also my perception is not that development teams are necessarily "dominated" by nerds. It's a cliche which is often wrong.

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