"An industry which celebrates violence and the exaggerated female form might expect to be an all-male domain - but a university launched a frantic search today after a prestigious new computer games degree failed to attract a single woman.
The Microsoft-backed honours course has had applications from 106 male undergraduates, but now hopes to strike a gender balance by holding a series of summer camps."
Ouch! Then again, this seems to be the unfortunate fate of the IT industry anyway: most women were never really interested to begin with - probably because IT is still nerdy, no matter how you spin it - and the overall CIS enrollment in the United States is falling as well, with many students opting for technical schools in other countries. The Guardian article says that "women make up only 17% of the industry's workforce, with only 2% employed in technical and software development positions." I wonder what those numbers look like in places like India or China these days.
Of course, if you take a niche area like Tablet PC/ink application development, which accounts for, what, maybe 10% of developers, you could probably count the women without needing to get your toes involved. Maybe Julia could provide us with a demographic update.