Within computer culture , and especially hacker culture, women are rare.
Rave culture is a little more equal, with about a third of the audience being female.
Among the hobby hackers and the criminal hackers, there's only the occasional female enthusiast. Often, someone starts out using the computer as a typewriter, then she hears of online discussion groups and forums for her major, and once she's tried communication over the Net, she's bitten. The most famous female hacker went under the pseudonym Susan Thunder . Susan was a textbook example of a maladjusted girl. She'd been mistreated as a kid, but was of the survivor kind.