I am fed up with all the replies saying get a job closer to home. It's not that simple.
I love my job. It's in London. My husband's job is in Cambridge. We live in between. It takes me an hour to get to work but it keeps me in a job I love and living with the person I love.
Deal with it and don't be so short sighted.
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Women Leaving I.T.
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We need to figure out why women are leaving IT. I see several comments here saying that women were just in it for the money during the dot com boom, or to them it was just a job. You know, there were an *awful* lot of guys who are/were in IT for exactly those reasons too.
As for the inherent differences thing, look at entry to law and medical school. Figures have risen from under 10% females in the 70's to near equal numbers of men and women - and I see this reflected in doctors and lawyers around me. More than half of the general practitioners at my local surgery, including senior partners, are women.
Entry to university science courses is getting more equal too, but the diversity there is not being reflected in the staffing levels in faculty. Is science harder than medicine or law? It may require different thought processes but I don't think so. Does science require extra dedication or determination? You try getting a training contract as a lawyer, or getting into med school.
So what's going wrong? It always seems to come down to family. Fair enough, women will always have time off to have kids due to biology, but if a man wants kids he doesn't seem to have the social expectations that he will have to juggle a career, childminding etc. His professional respectability is in no way diminished by having kids. Once women have kids, a lot of workplace culture seems to see that she is less committed, less capable and not as trustworthy as before. If a woman is good at her job, why does it matter if she has kids?
Next time you here some bloke ('cos it will be a man) making a comment about women and childrearing and jobs, ask him how many kids he has. If he has kids, then obviously he's less committed to his job, 'cos he's a parent, right?
This a bit of a ramble. I don't have any answers but I have seen professional women (I'm a medical researcher in academia) face these challenges. For some good reading, check out Science's careers pages - there is some insightful writing on the male/female and work/life balances.
Okay, so we can go round placing stickers on Bibles and other religious works saying "Some of the stuff in here is historically accurate but the rest of it has no basis in fact"
Levying a tax on blank media is not the fairest way to collect such a fee (if such a fee has to exist at all). I have never used a blank DVD or CD for storage of copyrighted material - I use such media for backups or for the transfer of my work between machines.
I suggest you get out into the real world, and not just teenagers' bedrooms, before you make pronouncements about what content is stored on recordable media. No doubt many people use recordable media for storing copyrighted material but this is by no means their only use.
Is there a list anywhere with the sources Google Scholar indexes? It's going to be tough to compete with PubMed (for biosciences anyway) which is free, and other things like Web Of Knowledge which isn't free but available at pretty much every academic institution here in the UK.
I really don't have a problem with stores collecting data about what I buy - they can do that through the till without any cards anyway. But it is a better deal if they have no details associated with your loyalty card - no junk mail, for one. Sure, they know what you buy but they have no information about you.
Actually, the lack of FM radio capability is one of the things that is keeping me from buying any of the iPods and is making me consider the iRivers. Radio in the US may suck, but FM in the UK has delights such as Radio 4 and other regional stations.
A decent MP3 player with a DAB radio facility would rock:-)
In the UK, calls have been getting cheaper and competition between networks is pretty intense. I think it's like this in most of Europe. So where has the US gone wrong?
Amen, brother!
The worst are those crappy camera phones - I went to see Eric Clapton live at the Royal Albert Hall in London. I was sitting near the back and every half minute some moron would stick their camera phone in the air to try and grab a shot and a majorly bright little screen pops up in otherwise perfect darkness, apart from the cool light effects which are *supposed* to be there.
I nearly threw the morons sitting in front of me off the balcony:-(
http://www.spireusa.com/
I bought a bag of them (the Zoom) and it has a laptop compartment with extra padding that can be removed and used as a laptop sleeve with its own handle. I have nothing but praise for these bags - you feed in your laptop model and it tells you which pouch will best fit the laptop. My laptop survived a 6ft drop from a train overhead luggage rack (pausing to bounce off my head:-( ) and it was unharmed. Their bags don't scream LAPTOP either.
But at $120, probably a bit more than you want to spend though.
Actually, it's just as important that we get more guys into childminding and nursing as well as getting more women into IT. As a female grad student in a male-dominated lab, it's essential that these role models exist. They are few and far between - the two female profs here are both slightly mad with no life outside of work. It's important to show women that you can do IT/tech/science jobs and have a life. In an ideal world it wouldn't matter if you were a man or a woman. But it does, so I think programs like these will help us get towards a more sex-neutral workplace
The US's traditional position on R&D is not as special as you might think - in the pharmaceutical industry, R&D competition from India is nothing new - think of Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy's Labs to name a few. Yanks probably haven't heard of them but they are happily producing generic copies of Western blockbuster drugs -even when they are still patent protected (India only recently subscribed to Western -style patent protection). These companies now have the cash to start up significant R&D projects of their own.
If this isn't enough, AstraZeneca have a major new R&D (not just manufactoring) plant in India.
Don't be so arrogant as to assume that the R&D in the US recently was conducted only by Americans. You benefited hugely from a brain drain of talented individuals from all over the world.
Phase I trial is indeed used to determine a maximum human dose, but only in healthy humans - ie you can show that the stuff doesn't make healthy people sick.
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I am fed up with all the replies saying get a job closer to home. It's not that simple. I love my job. It's in London. My husband's job is in Cambridge. We live in between. It takes me an hour to get to work but it keeps me in a job I love and living with the person I love. Deal with it and don't be so short sighted.
We need to figure out why women are leaving IT. I see several comments here saying that women were just in it for the money during the dot com boom, or to them it was just a job. You know, there were an *awful* lot of guys who are/were in IT for exactly those reasons too.
As for the inherent differences thing, look at entry to law and medical school. Figures have risen from under 10% females in the 70's to near equal numbers of men and women - and I see this reflected in doctors and lawyers around me. More than half of the general practitioners at my local surgery, including senior partners, are women.
Entry to university science courses is getting more equal too, but the diversity there is not being reflected in the staffing levels in faculty. Is science harder than medicine or law? It may require different thought processes but I don't think so. Does science require extra dedication or determination? You try getting a training contract as a lawyer, or getting into med school. So what's going wrong? It always seems to come down to family. Fair enough, women will always have time off to have kids due to biology, but if a man wants kids he doesn't seem to have the social expectations that he will have to juggle a career, childminding etc. His professional respectability is in no way diminished by having kids. Once women have kids, a lot of workplace culture seems to see that she is less committed, less capable and not as trustworthy as before. If a woman is good at her job, why does it matter if she has kids?
Next time you here some bloke ('cos it will be a man) making a comment about women and childrearing and jobs, ask him how many kids he has. If he has kids, then obviously he's less committed to his job, 'cos he's a parent, right? This a bit of a ramble. I don't have any answers but I have seen professional women (I'm a medical researcher in academia) face these challenges. For some good reading, check out Science's careers pages - there is some insightful writing on the male/female and work/life balances.
Okay, so we can go round placing stickers on Bibles and other religious works saying "Some of the stuff in here is historically accurate but the rest of it has no basis in fact"
Yeah, right.
Levying a tax on blank media is not the fairest way to collect such a fee (if such a fee has to exist at all). I have never used a blank DVD or CD for storage of copyrighted material - I use such media for backups or for the transfer of my work between machines.
I suggest you get out into the real world, and not just teenagers' bedrooms, before you make pronouncements about what content is stored on recordable media. No doubt many people use recordable media for storing copyrighted material but this is by no means their only use.
Is there a list anywhere with the sources Google Scholar indexes? It's going to be tough to compete with PubMed (for biosciences anyway) which is free, and other things like Web Of Knowledge which isn't free but available at pretty much every academic institution here in the UK.
I really don't have a problem with stores collecting data about what I buy - they can do that through the till without any cards anyway. But it is a better deal if they have no details associated with your loyalty card - no junk mail, for one. Sure, they know what you buy but they have no information about you.
Actually, the lack of FM radio capability is one of the things that is keeping me from buying any of the iPods and is making me consider the iRivers. Radio in the US may suck, but FM in the UK has delights such as Radio 4 and other regional stations.
A decent MP3 player with a DAB radio facility would rock:-)
This is a genuine question...
In the UK, calls have been getting cheaper and competition between networks is pretty intense. I think it's like this in most of Europe. So where has the US gone wrong?
Amen, brother!
The worst are those crappy camera phones - I went to see Eric Clapton live at the Royal Albert Hall in London. I was sitting near the back and every half minute some moron would stick their camera phone in the air to try and grab a shot and a majorly bright little screen pops up in otherwise perfect darkness, apart from the cool light effects which are *supposed* to be there.
I nearly threw the morons sitting in front of me off the balcony:-(
http://www.spireusa.com/
I bought a bag of them (the Zoom) and it has a laptop compartment with extra padding that can be removed and used as a laptop sleeve with its own handle. I have nothing but praise for these bags - you feed in your laptop model and it tells you which pouch will best fit the laptop. My laptop survived a 6ft drop from a train overhead luggage rack (pausing to bounce off my head:-( ) and it was unharmed. Their bags don't scream LAPTOP either. But at $120, probably a bit more than you want to spend though.
Actually, it's just as important that we get more guys into childminding and nursing as well as getting more women into IT. As a female grad student in a male-dominated lab, it's essential that these role models exist. They are few and far between - the two female profs here are both slightly mad with no life outside of work. It's important to show women that you can do IT/tech/science jobs and have a life. In an ideal world it wouldn't matter if you were a man or a woman. But it does, so I think programs like these will help us get towards a more sex-neutral workplace
The US's traditional position on R&D is not as special as you might think - in the pharmaceutical industry, R&D competition from India is nothing new - think of Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy's Labs to name a few. Yanks probably haven't heard of them but they are happily producing generic copies of Western blockbuster drugs -even when they are still patent protected (India only recently subscribed to Western -style patent protection). These companies now have the cash to start up significant R&D projects of their own. If this isn't enough, AstraZeneca have a major new R&D (not just manufactoring) plant in India. Don't be so arrogant as to assume that the R&D in the US recently was conducted only by Americans. You benefited hugely from a brain drain of talented individuals from all over the world.
Phase I trial is indeed used to determine a maximum human dose, but only in healthy humans - ie you can show that the stuff doesn't make healthy people sick.