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Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT

Posted by Zonk on from the balancing-the-gender-spread dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What is wrong with women? by Further82 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  2. Re:What is wrong with women? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    9th grade girls are HOT, why can't the asses of 20 something girls look that good?

  3. Women will never be successful in IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Simply because they lack the skill and mechanism to comprehend simple concepts that are second nature to men.

    White men, anyway.

    Of course we all know Niggers and Spics do not have the mind for complex tasks.

    The only real dangaer is represented, as always, as The Jews, and the Yellow Scum.

    But women won't be a problem.

  4. Re:Maybe this is sexist and everything, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well its just obvious that people who are white males are inferior and do not deserve a scholarship while someone who was born an African American or a female is automatically better and more deserving of one.

  5. Re:Why force this on girls? by northcat · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've been using computers (macs in particular)

    You use macs. That explains a lot.

  6. Re:What is wrong with women? by Digi-John · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

    --
    Klingon programs don't timeshare, they battle for supremacy.