I always avoid the "let me do this for you" offer by saying "no, I'll do it". If they insist, I just explain I wanna do it because this way it's easier for me to keep track of my work, you know, self-management. That they respect and are not offended by.

Count me in the same club sista

While i was studying I.T. some time ago we had a suprisingly large amount of laidies on my year. Like 1/3 of it. They often had better grades, projects, solutions etc. than thier male fellow students. So my assumption is, while a man is I.T. it can be because it's "manly thing", but when a woman is I.T. god damn she has to know her s**t ;).

You spelled it wrong. It's not "their experiences" it's "stereotypes in media".

Yeah, I cannot figure if you are sexist or just plain stupid. You mention exactly the same arguments people use to explain why men are better at problem solving and why women just cannot be working in tech jobs. Congratulations on that! Last time I checked I did the problem solving with my brain and not with other body parts only men have. So where exactly is the advantage the "average male" has?

Interesting that you said "they live with it until a guy fixes it". This says to me, the computer is functional; so they don't bother to mess with it. It's not that they can't. It isn't a priority to them. As a female software manager, I can assure you the female brain has no problem solving technology issues.

"Try googling" - nice twist! I already knew about that so called difference in male and female brains and made up my mind. Googled again just now and the first hit on google confirmed my thoughts and experiences: there is no such thing as male or female brains. Like behavior the brain is formed by gene AND environment. And nobody can exactly tell how much is formed by gene or by environment. Did you ever try to google Gina Rippon? Only one example of disproving that old theories. I assume your examples of women waiting for men to repair their computer where raised in a time where boys and girls weren't treated equally (hell, even nowadays they are treated differently) so they probably never get the chance to try tech-stuff, or if they did they get to hear "c'mon, let me just do that for you". When should they have learnt it... My experience is: give a girl a computer and don't discourage her and she will be as good and as fast as a boy. Where comes the different brain in here?

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Austi I don't think I am stupid, so then I guess I am sexist. You say that you solve problems with your brain. Try googling "difference between female and male brain" and make up your own mind. My conclusion after this exercise is that there are *on average* differences between males and females that are not a social construct. If that is sexist then so be it.