Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters

[JennMW]

Interesting study on the influence of environment on determining gender.

Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/23/1152246&from=rss)

The detailed study link appears to parallel some of the ideas discussed in the What's your T* score? (http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2745) thread.

My parents were a mechanic and librarian.

What are the (primary) occupations of your parents?

[DonnaT]

I'm an engineer and engineered one of each :D

[azure]

my dad is a avaiation specialist and my mum is a nurse
so go figure.

[Ibuki_Warpetal]

My dad was in the air force and my mom built bombs for a while.

:confused: :p

I have a sister named Jennifer Walker...

[liteswtchrave]

I'm in school to be an engineer....i wonder if it's to late to get out :confused:

[RachelDenise]

Dad is a water chemist, mom is a nurse!

[Clare]

First - Mum and Dad.

My mum used to work in a fabric store (a very long time ago) and dad was an agent for farmers - selling cattle, fertalisers, etc. (To those in Australia, he worked for Dalgety Wesfarmers).

Me and the wife.

We were both bankers for 15 years, now i'm in I.T. Networking sales and the wife prety much a fulltime Mum, but wants to work in a fabric store. (To those in Australia, its Spotlight).

Nothing special here i suppose.

Christine

[sarah]

I am an engineer and have three daughters .so go figure !!! :bonk:

[Sarah Ellis]

My Dad worked in shipbuilding and my Mom was a nurse....

Satin xxx

[Sophie]

my dad's an engineer and my mum's a Nanny, could explain a lot!! was i always destined to be 2 people?

Sophie

[juneuk]

I served on submarines for a long time and have girls and of the 50 guys I served with who had familles only 2 had boys.
All of the divers I know also have girls.
Is it the type of job or environmental factors??

Foot note: of the 2 guys who did have boys both had them after they had not been to sea for many months.
Strange but true.

[Andrea]

My brother is an engineer, my sister in law a nurse. Result one boy, one girl.

As for divers, dont know on that one, could be exposure to nitrogen perhaps. Used to dive myself but not had any kids so can't give an opinion ! :D

[juneuk]

As for divers, dont know on that one, could be exposure to nitrogen perhaps. Used to dive myself but not had any kids so can't give an opinion ! :D

I've been for a look....
It could be to do with the water/air pressure on the...er... well ..you know.

[Andrea]

I've been for a look....
It could be to do with the water/air pressure on the...er... well ..you know.

Could be, could be......

[Stormgirl]

My father was an electrical engineer and my mother was a flight attendant for United Airlines and flew internationally.

[Kimberly]

This study is yet another example of why I am a crossdresser. hehe.... I'm slap bang in the middle: AGAIN! lol. :p

My dad is a carpenter, and my mum is a nurse!!

:D Girly boy here we come!

[Dragster]

Like Christine, my dad was a farmer's agent (though he had wanted to be a marine engineer), and my mum was a butcher. They had two boys.

I'm an engineer (there seem to be a lot of engineering connections in this thread!) and my wife was in banking, and like DonnaT, we engineered one of each!

Tony

[AbbyLee]

My father died when I was five, my mother was a waitress, my stepfather a butcher.??? Was the methodology of the study sound?

AbbyLee

[DonnaT]

If I took my parentage into acccount:

My granddad was an engineer, my grandmother taught flappers. One son


My dad was going to college and taking engineering, but got my mother preggers, so went to work for the phone company. My mom was a housewife. 5 boys

I broke the mold when we had a girl. :D

[TaylorAB]

Interesting study on the influence of environment on determining gender.

Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/23/1152246&from=rss)

The detailed study link appears to parallel some of the ideas discussed in the What's your T* score? (http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2745) thread.

My parents were a mechanic and librarian.

What are the (primary) occupations of your parents?

My father's a retired patent researcher for the Dept. of Commerce. He has a chemical engineering degree. My mother was a stay at home mother. Results two boys and one girl.

My sister is a nurse and her husband a doctor. Results two boys

Myself I am single and do not have any children. But everyone that knows me has agreed for some crazy reason, that if I ever had any children they'd all be girls :rolleyes: Hmm, wonder why?

[Tristen Cox]

Just for the record, none of my family is, or ever was an engineer or in the medical end of things. Last I knew my dad was still selling cars or whatever he could as he had all his life. My mother has gone from a ticket clerk at a theater to working for retail department stores. And I don't believe in the cogiati test. It's nice to play with(yes I got a good score too) but I doubt it is any more accurate than an online IQ test IMHO.

[iseiai no okama]

My mother's a homemaker, although before she had my sister she was the vice-president of the San Francisco branch of Wells Fargo. My dad was a member of the tax franchise board, then retired, then couldn't deal with retirement, then became a college professor.

Those statistics appear to be significant according to a chi-square analysis, but i think it could also be a crank doing some monkey business with the numbers. It could also be possibly that correlation could not result in causation of birth gender, or that both occupation selection and gender could have a shared root cause.

[DonnaT]

My father's a retired patent researcher for the Dept. of Commerce. He has a chemical engineering degree. My mother was a stay at home mother. Results two boys and one girl.

Side note. HI Taylor, I used to be a Patent Examiner at the Patent Office.

[Phoebe Diana]

In my generation of my extended family, all the fathers were Physicians, and all the mothers were Teachers (except for my mother who was an Interior Designer). Results: 11 boys, 1 girl. (And the one girl is the very youngest. And spoiled rotten.)

I'm an accountant, my wife is a baker, and both our children are boys.

Phoebe

PS I also remember a friend of mine in college who's family, going back 3 generations were *all* Engineers married to Nurses. Very odd to see that pattern of professions repeat so much.

[gender_blender]

I just got my degree in engineering 3 weeks ago.
My father was a photographer/Xray technician and my mother is a beautician/nurse. Both enlisted in the Air force and retired after 21 years each.


Charlie