[issues] Re: Women leaving IT

2000-09-03 Thread Kathy Giori
thanks, caitlyn, for the link to the interesting article. i usually just like to peruse what is discussed in this forum (i get the digest version), but to this i felt like responding. upon graduation from college or entry level IT positions, the reason there are less women in IT than men is proba

Re: [issues] Re: Women Leaving IT

2000-09-03 Thread jenn
Simon Britnell wrote: > I'm not sure that offering a bigger carrot is going to get more *good* > female techs into circulation. Most of us will have encountered people > who work only for the benefits, and their work tends to suck. If you're > going to get good techs (male, female or undecided)

[issues] Re: Women Leaving IT

2000-09-03 Thread Simon Britnell
Interesting Article Caitlyn, Thanx for the ref. Whenever I read and respond to these things, I find my ideas bouncing around a lot and I'm always short on time, so I apologise for the incoherence. The thing I took away from this article is that *in general*, men and women seem to want differe