>Caitlyn Martin wrote:
>
>> How many of us who are women in tech fields are looked
>> upon as different or weird because of who we are? Isn't something
>>wrong with that?
>#include MeToo
>
>Jenn V wrote:
>
>Me! Me!
>It definately happens, on a regular basis.
>Them: "So, what do you do?"
>Me: "I'm a computer programmer"
>Them: <doubletake> <flabbergast> <etc>
I rarely get this here at home, but when I travel I do see a bit of it.
But, I live in a hi-tech area... Saying I'm a programmer and *NIX
sysadmin doesn't faze most people around here and usually just
gets an "Ahh! You work at Xxxxx?". However, I recently spent some
time on the east coast covering a sysadmin who was out for a
medical emergency and I got plenty of "hey, wow! you really do
know this stuff! oh wow!" reactions.
And when I go to visit my family (also on the east coast) I rarely fail
to get a "...honey? why do you know this?" from my mom .
hehehehe :) (but, she's very proud of me)
(I never did an introduction... sorry. FWIW I work for a major chip
manufacturer supporting a large multi-platform *NIX environment.
I don't get to read and respond to the list as much as I'd like to,
but maybe when things slow down a bit...
Both of my bosses are women, one of them being the most
brilliant *NIX admin I've ever met -- and we have a bunch of 'em!)
> jenn V wrote
>
> > We have about 20 technical people on the books. 4 are women.
> > The writers?
>> Me.
>> Catherine.
> > Kate.
> >
> > What are the odds of that being random? (yes, all three of us are female)
>
>Mary Gardiner wrote:
>
>In addition to female-socialisation being geared towards valuing and
>cultivating communication skills, this is also caused by those skills
>being considerably undervalued in men.
I know this might sound like man bashing, but I wholeheartedly agree.
When I started college in the computer engineering program, there
were exactly two of us versus a boatload of guys. However, my Lit
and English classes were the exact opposite. Who's to say if it's
purely social or perhaps it's a 'wiring' issue. Whichever way you look
at it, we've tended toward arts and lit as a whole. I think that's changing,
though. I've talked to a lot of young girls who are geeks and proud of it!
:)
My 2 cents,
Maggie
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