Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs

Lucas123 writes "An alarming number of women are currently abandoning IT jobs that require workers to be on-call at all hours, according to a story in Computerworld. One study cited in the article states that by 2012, 40% of women now working in IT will leave for careers with more flexible hours. 'I think women in that regard are at a real disadvantage,' said Dot Brunette, network and storage manager at Meijer Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer and a 30-year IT veteran. She noted that companies can fail to attract female workers, or see them leave key IT jobs, because they fail to provide day care at work, or work-at-home options for someone who leaves to have a child.'"

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It is called political correctness, it is evil

[jmorris42]

> Look, you're hired to do a job. If you can't or won't do it, find a different job...

Exactly. Even Zonk got this one right when he picked the Dept for this article. This IS the Free Market in action. Women are putting different priorities on the work/family problem and coming up with different choices. I thought that was what we all wanted, freedom to choose our own course through life. Women are DIFFERENT, guess some people are just noticing that isn't just a case of some people having boobies and some not. I say whatever works for them, regardless if HR people have nightmares because it is messing with their quotas. (That they don't have of course.)

The suggested 'solution', grossly inflating the compensation packages and reducing the job description for a position based on gender, should be seen as a condescending insult. But of course it won't. In fact it is exactly what will be done because it is ALL about the numbers.

Just another anchor large operations get to carry around in the global marketplace to satisfy PC stupidity. In a way it is their own fault because large corporations love to use the power of the State to keep competitors small, problem is a government big enough for that is also big enough to be used for PC silliness by OTHER special interests. Won't matter though, small nimble upstarts continually chew up and recycle old stale corps.... and become new megacorps who beat down thier competition with similar tactics, become old and lumbering, repeat.

[yes, if I don't get modded troll for what follows I'll be disappointed] ;)

Of course what is really throwing the sand in the vaginas of the feminists is how this represents yet another sign of the total failure of their philosophy. They had a dream. Men and women were interchangable units, not just equal but identical in ability, ambition and goals... if only they could deprogram women from their incorrect notions.. and convince them that their only unique role in propagating the species was childbirth.

And for a generation it almost worked. Women bought the pitch and entered the workforce and the professions with a will, many forgoing children entirely and the rest tossing their kids into daycare (or buying a nanny for the upperclass feminist leaders) as soon as they recovered from delivery enough to work again. And it was working! The glass ceiling was only a speed bump, another generation and total victory was in sight.

Then something unexpected happened. Those abandoned kids grew up. Disfunctional in ways never seen, but apparently not willing to repeat the mistakes of their parents. Looking at THEIR offspring it is apparent that most haven't a clue HOW to parent, but they are trying. In a world gone stark raving mad, still bent on destroying the notions that make a traditional family impossible by law, policy, custom and culture more and more of em seem determined to try. Guess it is now the counter culture thing to do? Being 'normal' is now an act of rebellion?