Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT

An anonymous reader writes "Wednesday Microsoft Canada's vice president of developer and platform evangelism encouraged 9th grade girls to head for an IT career with a presentation that debunked key myths. Apparently IT isn't geeky or socially isolating. From the article: "Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do, and that IT work is not very social...They were concerned that there were limitations for women in this area of technology, and they felt there is a stigma associated with IT in terms of it not being a very exciting place to work."

Comments

Re:What is wrong with women?

[Further82]

Okay, 9th grade not 9 years old, though for women, the brain is as mature is its gonna get at the age of 9 anyway.

Re:Why force this on girls?

[northcat]

I've been using computers (macs in particular)

You use macs. That explains a lot.

Re:What is wrong with women?

[Digi-John]

Here's some advice for you: Don't ever say that you are in 9th grade. If you say that, almost everybody will immediately discount whatever you said, no matter how well written the statement was. Your post, however, was neither well-thought out nor was it well written, so I hereby stamp it with a large "IGNORE". Yes, I know that nobody else here punctuates or spells correctly, but you are still in school and thereby SHOULD be able to do so. We all know geeks are good; we all know programs like this aren't.