Many people use crossover skills. Even if an administrative assistant is technically savvy, has she attained a CS/IT degree? Has she ever written a program? Does she know how the applications that she uses (excel) are written and executed within an operating system?
To be considered IT, it has to be your main focus, obviously your career. Like the other guy said, just cuz he can change his own oil it doesn't make him an auto mechanic...
Your comparison between the HTML skills of the.com era don't apply b/c HTML was just as foreign as perl/php these days.
You also make the generalization that men can't cook or take care of kids. Well listen of up fool, as a man, i can vouch that these are very easily accomplished. You'll learn one day...till then think about what you saying before you click 'submit'.
agreed, there are so many types of stereotypes in our society that dictate the way people think of others, etc. That shouldn't sway IT women away, but sadly it does in some situations. Especially if they decide its just easier to do a different job and not deal with the generalizations.
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"women and men do seem to have different distributions of personalities, aptitudes for certain skills"
This point says alot, I have always noticed that women and men tend to think differently about things. Men usually approach something with the 'how does this work' mentality. Women on the other hand look at it differently, i think most would ask themselves 'how does this affect life as a whole' or something more abstract. I can remember having this discussion with my wife, i've even noticed that the way she analyzes certain things is totally different than the way I would.
It's just like they say in Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Men like to fix things, and thus want to know how they work. This is most likely why the IT profession is dominated by men.
Now i realize that these are simply generalizations and don't apply to all men and women, but it seems like the majority of men and women fall into these two categories.
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I don't think they were quite as bad, but the ratio had to be at least 10 to 1.
Many people use crossover skills. Even if an administrative assistant is technically savvy, has she attained a CS/IT degree? Has she ever written a program? Does she know how the applications that she uses (excel) are written and executed within an operating system?
To be considered IT, it has to be your main focus, obviously your career. Like the other guy said, just cuz he can change his own oil it doesn't make him an auto mechanic...
Your comparison between the HTML skills of the .com era don't apply b/c HTML was just as foreign as perl/php these days.
You also make the generalization that men can't cook or take care of kids. Well listen of up fool, as a man, i can vouch that these are very easily accomplished. You'll learn one day...till then think about what you saying before you click 'submit'.
agreed, there are so many types of stereotypes in our society that dictate the way people think of others, etc.
That shouldn't sway IT women away, but sadly it does in some situations. Especially if they decide its just easier to do a different job and not deal with the generalizations.
"women and men do seem to have different distributions of personalities, aptitudes for certain skills" This point says alot, I have always noticed that women and men tend to think differently about things. Men usually approach something with the 'how does this work' mentality. Women on the other hand look at it differently, i think most would ask themselves 'how does this affect life as a whole' or something more abstract. I can remember having this discussion with my wife, i've even noticed that the way she analyzes certain things is totally different than the way I would. It's just like they say in Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Men like to fix things, and thus want to know how they work. This is most likely why the IT profession is dominated by men. Now i realize that these are simply generalizations and don't apply to all men and women, but it seems like the majority of men and women fall into these two categories.