one must live, eat and sleep technology and most woman in my opinion are not willing to do this. They are too obsessed with hair and makeup to put in the hours necessary to become a REAL GEEK!
that's as much of damaging stereotype as saying women can't be geeks because they're too stupid. of course there are women how prefer hair and makeup, there are men who do too (and they're all crazy in my book). none of these people will become geeks, regardless of their sex/gender because they're the wrong type of person.
i think that it just takes a certain type of person to be interested in technology, not a specific gender. it also takes a certain amount of determination as a woman to be willing to dive into a male dominated culture like geekdom.
i think that another thing that holds women back from achieving really well in technology is that to be a true uber-geek you need to put in really long hours. technology has to be your 24hr/day obsession. i think that most women would rather go home at the end of the day, see their friends or family and have a little more balance, a little more of a life.
As a girlgeek, it frustrates me to see another article where women geeks get such a cursory mention. Comments like "// warning: works best without a girlfriend" and "Many Silicon Valley execs =marry= their good-looking, modern career-gal publicists" serve to emphasis the fact that the bulk of the women in the article are refered to by stereotypes ("Kelli the surfer-girl/marketing manager") or as sex industry workers. I accept the point that men outnumber women in Silicon Valley, but women outnumber men on the planet. Does that mean we should only be writing articles about women's sexuality?
It's demeaning to both the female and male readers of Slashdot that articles like this one generates so little protest. -rebecca
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one must live, eat and sleep technology and most woman in my opinion are not willing to do this. They are too obsessed with hair and makeup to put in the hours necessary to become a REAL GEEK!
that's as much of damaging stereotype as saying women can't be geeks because they're too stupid. of course there are women how prefer hair and makeup, there are men who do too (and they're all crazy in my book). none of these people will become geeks, regardless of their sex/gender because they're the wrong type of person.
i think that it just takes a certain type of person to be interested in technology, not a specific gender. it also takes a certain amount of determination as a woman to be willing to dive into a male dominated culture like geekdom.
i think that another thing that holds women back from achieving really well in technology is that to be a true uber-geek you need to put in really long hours. technology has to be your 24hr/day obsession. i think that most women would rather go home at the end of the day, see their friends or family and have a little more balance, a little more of a life.
As a girlgeek, it frustrates me to see another article where women geeks get such a cursory mention. Comments like "// warning: works best without a girlfriend" and "Many Silicon Valley execs =marry= their good-looking, modern career-gal publicists" serve to emphasis the fact that the bulk of the women in the article are refered to by stereotypes ("Kelli the surfer-girl/marketing manager") or as sex industry workers. I accept the point that men outnumber women in Silicon Valley, but women outnumber men on the planet. Does that mean we should only be writing articles about women's sexuality?
It's demeaning to both the female and male readers of Slashdot that articles like this one generates so little protest.
-rebecca