On 2 Feb 2000, Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
> As some of you may know, I work as a trainer teaching Unix, Perl and
> Internet stuff.
>
> Recently (the last 6 months or so) I've noticed a trend which is, quite
> frankly, astonishing: more than half my trainees are female.
>
> All of these courses are very technical and aimed at people in the IT
> industry.
>
> Any guesses as to what's going on?
1> More females are getting into technical careers than in the past.
2> More females realize what they don't know and are willing to take
classes to beef up their skills--- or can convince their employers to pay
for them.
3> There are lots of females in low-to-mid-level tech jobs who are
starting to migrate to higher-level tech jobs.
but that's off the top of my head.
srl
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