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Women Dropping Out of IT
Women's eNews has an interesting look at women in tech, with numbers showing that women are bailing out of the IT field at a rapid pace. "Technology jobs are predicted to grow at a faster rate than all other jobs in the professional sector, up to 22% over the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Compensation is also good. In 2008, women in tech made an average salary of $70,370. ... But women's stake in that rosy outlook is questionable. For starters, men's pay during the same time period was $80,357. A study by the National Center for Women and Information Technology ... also finds that women are leaving computer careers in staggering numbers. 'Fifty-six percent of women in technology companies leave their organizations at the mid-level point, 10-20 years in their careers,' said Catherine Ashcraft, the senior research scientist who authored the report. In 2008, women held only 25% of all professional IT-related jobs, down from 36% in 1991, according to the group's report, 'Women in IT: The Facts.'"
... and humorless cuntwads, or so it would seem.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Stevie Wonder's never seen very many guys with white sticks.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
All war criminals have been males.
Get a old MAC off craigslist cheap, I don't think you will get one for free.
The problem with the XP PC can likely be solved with Hackinstosh or a Linux distro.
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
It is, however, an act of being an aspie. As is not understanding sarcasm. *cough*
Why? Systemic complexity is intuitively beautiful, regardless of any attached connections to reality, IMHO. But, you say, systems should be simple? That only holds if the system has a purpouse, and most "basement dwellers" seems chronically disconnected from any purpouse or drive besides empty mental stimulation (video games, etc...) and base drives. There's also the fact of "weak central coherence", intuitively thinking in an unattached fashion and lacking an integration into a broader perspective - if you slip in this, mental systems may easily be formed without connection to any drive to be efficient. (IANAP, but every shrink I ever met say I probably have Aspergers. Excepting the one who went with beginning catatonic schizophrenia. Oy.)
Emotions! In your brain!