> Lisa Beimler said:
> > Go to most computer departments and count the number of women and you will
> > see we still have a long way to go. Computing is still a guy's club and
> > most women I know, myself included, still feel they have to break in and
> > show themselves comptetent.
> And doesn't CSci have the highest percentage of women of all the engineering
> type majors? I've always hated that women have to prove our competence and
> men have to prove their incompetence. But, at least during my career, software
> development tends to be close to a pure meritocracy and people generally
> fall into their proper place.
No, I seem to recall that bio and enviro engineering were the highest. It's
been a while since I saw any stats.
I have to say that I've also found software work to be merit-based and
haven't had any gender problems of a serious nature. I'm noticing fewer
double-takes, too, which is nice. Maybe that's because I'm more confident
of myself, however, and assume that everyone will accept me? Self-fufilling
prophecy and all...
I've heard rumours of some bad age discrimination happening, though. Has
anyone encountered that?
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