On 7/16/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From my (limited, US centric) experience, degrees are pretty much how > you get past initial HR screening; no one actually pays much attention > to it when you actually get to interview stages or the experienced > based portion of hiring.
This is true in my country as well, and I suspect it is probably true in most countries. However, what you study at University usually (and my feeling is that specially for women) sets the basis for what you will accomplish out of it. I know that in Free Software there's a lot of pride in being self-taught, and that most employers will value self-taught employees probably more than people with degrees. I feel, however, that this might be one of the reasons why the percentages of women in FLOSS are so much smaller than the percentages of women in propietary software. I think that if there were more options in the degrees that people were able to pursue, and some of those included deep kernel development or something of the sort, we would have more female hackers... I know, we can't change what Universities want to teach. These are just random thoughts. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
