Re: Dunno about hacking
"There is one obvious result from conscription in Israel - most women have had a mandatory self-defence course and a bloody good one to boot. As a result you can see a young lady going out on a jog alone in the park at times when it will be considered suicidal in UK or USA - like 11pm+ or even in the wee hours."
This is all perception rather thna reality. Th ereality is that men are many mor etimes likely to be physically attacked than women and if they are attacked much less likely to receive help from strangers. Despite this Men do go out jogging late at night probably because they have a better understanding of the magnitude of the risk and a better attitude to risk generally rather than the victimhood that is currently drummed into women.
On the gender balance it is well known that the more choice and support women have, for example in scandanavian countries, the more polarised and more traditional roles the women choose to take up and the lower proportion of women in technical roles. Based on this it is unsurprising that conscription results in a closer gender balance but is this what we want or necessarily even a good thing? What is wrong with women doing what they want to do which is generallly not tech.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
