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The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap
ifindkarma writes "Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com, has written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other individual efforts. In The Hidden Engineering Gap, she asks why there are so many self-taught male software engineers in startups, but no similar pool of women. In A Modest Proposal, she discusses a potential short-term fix to the problem: a one-year, co-op, certificate-granting program for women set up and sponsored by Silicon Valley companies."
Geez...why is it women seem to need a special program, book or group session to discuss shit to do ANYTHING??!?!
If men can take the self initiative, or just be interested in something enough to devote time to it and learn it...why can't women?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
...another bleeding heart that will want me to take on staff that can't do the job. I want a person that has the skill set required to fullfill a set of tasks. If they have green skin, two heads and shag sheep at the weekend so be it or if they are exactly the same as all the otehr people I hired then perhaps people that are "like that" do a good job. I realy don't care if you are boy, girl or politician so long as you can take a pile of "to do" lists and return a pile of "done deals" then you are on my team. I can see the next ten years being one long trek of finding new ways to tell this type of freakish misfit with a gender related chip on his/her shoulder exactly what politically incorrect part of themselves they can insert their ideas into.
i'm so sick of assholes like you who attempt to blame everything on men. the door has been open for many years for women to take up highly paid jobs. want to know the cold hard truth as to why women don't take it up? because they all secretly want to get knocked up, have a baby and stay at home and let someone else do the work. fuck i'd want to if i was a woman, fuck working all your life when someone else can do it for you. you'll find the majority of high powered exec's are either uninterested in having kids or only want them when they hit their mid 30's.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
This is almost entirely off-topic but nevertheless...
A friend of mine was working in IT Support for a major company and recieved a call from a lady who said the space bar on her keyboard was broken, it seemed like it was constantly depressed even when she wasn't pressing it.
He went to see her and checked out the keyboard and couldn't see anything wrong so he assured her that everything should be fine from now on. The next day she phones back reporting the same problem so he goes to see her again and again can find no problem with the keyboard. In order to look like he is doing something he replaces the keyboard anyway and assures the lady everything is OK now.
The next day she phones back again and says she is still experiencing the same problem and she wants it fixed properly this time so he goes down to see her again but this time he wants to see the problem for himself. He asks the lady to do what she normally does and he will wait so he can see the problem himself when it happens. As he was sitting there he noticed that the lady had a large bosom and it seemed to be resting on the keyboard and as he looked closer he saw that at times it did actually bounce on to the space bar. This was clearly the cause of the problem but he couldn't bring himself to explain this to the lady and basically ran off.
Maybe a female IT worker would have had more success here !