Irony!

Tshirts for the 6.370 programming competition are a spoof on the classic "We Can Do It" Rosie the Riveter image -- "now considered a feminist icon", says Wikipedia. It's a really fantastic piece of graphic design -- great use of two color printing, yellow and red on navy blue; it says "We Can Code It" and features a cyborg sorta robot with bandanna in the Rosie pose -- all in all a good-looking tshirt and I'm totally wearing it in spite of the sponsor advertising on the back and my preference for only wearing shirts with logos I really support. The hilarious part is, though: I'd guess that 10% at the very, very most of participants in the contest that the tshirt is for are female. I'm pretty sure it's an even more extreme statistic than the percentage of comp sci majors who are female here. ...