The increasingly prevalent attitude of "rah rah rah get women into tech!!! DIVERSITY RULEZ!" is absolutely ridiculous. I am a female in IT. I think computers are cool and fun and interesting, and you know what? I decided all of that on my own. Let people decide what they want to do, don't make women and minorities your pet project to see how many of us you can coerce into being interested in science and technology. If the majority of girls would rather do something else with their lives than stare at a computer screen all day, then let them.

Who cares if a small percentage of the IT workforce is women? I sincerely doubt that a 50/50 split of men and women are applying for these jobs. Now, if the percentage of male/female applicants WAS 50/50, then something would definitely be wrong. I'd be interested to see data on that.

For the record, I realize I may be privileged (and I cringe using that term, to be honest). I'm reading back on some comments about students getting picked on for taking an interested in science and technology, and that never happened to me. Even though I was pretty much always the only girl in my tech-related endeavours, I was never picked on for it (I was picked on for other things though, but I'm sure it would have still happened even if I liked more "traditionally female" things).

That being said, even if there wasn't a perceived stigma attached to those interests, I doubt the numbers would be much higher.

I couldn't help but find it funny that the first result on Google for "Orbis OS" is this: http://orbisos.wikispaces.com/

I, for one, hope GHWT bombs (at least in a critical sense - I know it'll sell like hotcakes). Neversoft had the gall to call themselves the first music game in which you could play as guitar, bass, drums and vocals months after Rock Band was released. Harmonix is a pioneer of music games, and just because they couldn't get Hendrix or Halen doesn't mean the quality of the game is any worse. I take my music game rivalries very seriously.