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The default gender is (usually) male, so I like to play with this by choosing the female gender whenever I have a free choice.
Nevertheless, branches and sub-divisions of any type are typically feminine -- always sisters or daughters. Perhaps the reason for this is that the sisters and daughters inherit the ability of their mothers to again divide/branch/etc and this is considered a female trait.
...I found this answer on yahoo.
Interesting and thanks. I haven't noticed this before: for whatever reason, I've only seen nodes in a tree structure referred to as "parent" and "child."
Males divide and inherit equally well :)
I always assumed that the predominantly male engineers behind terms like motherboard / daughterboard were simply lonely.