Nice. You assume that the 3 women who get the job will be less qualified. As a female developer having worked with both male and female developers alike I cannot see how you could justify that reasoning. Ability is not lost across the male/female divide. There may be different styles and interests perhaps but there is no lack of intelligence when it comes to code/design/solutions. The lack of applications for these projects most likely comes from the lingering perceptions of women being less technical, ambitious and logical - all of which are untrue - but are believed by men and women alike. Who knows - a scholarship program such as this might break some of those old thinking patterns and give the girls a bit more confidence to apply and succeed in the future. As for the post above which suggests that women need windows and that bloody paperclip and the like - I've never heard anything so patronising. Women don't need to relate to PCs any more than any non-techy guy. I'd prefer to work in Linux given a choice.
on the subject of cleaning profiles, check out AM-DeadLink (download.com)
helps clean up your bookmarks etc
been tinkering with it this morning to distract from my horrible hangover
off to install 1.5 next
will be interesting to see the ie7 attempt at tabbed browsing
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Nice. You assume that the 3 women who get the job will be less qualified.
As a female developer having worked with both male and female developers alike I cannot see how you could justify that reasoning. Ability is not lost across the male/female divide. There may be different styles and interests perhaps but there is no lack of intelligence when it comes to code/design/solutions.
The lack of applications for these projects most likely comes from the lingering perceptions of women being less technical, ambitious and logical - all of which are untrue - but are believed by men and women alike. Who knows - a scholarship program such as this might break some of those old thinking patterns and give the girls a bit more confidence to apply and succeed in the future.
As for the post above which suggests that women need windows and that bloody paperclip and the like - I've never heard anything so patronising. Women don't need to relate to PCs any more than any non-techy guy. I'd prefer to work in Linux given a choice.
on the subject of cleaning profiles, check out AM-DeadLink (download.com) helps clean up your bookmarks etc been tinkering with it this morning to distract from my horrible hangover off to install 1.5 next will be interesting to see the ie7 attempt at tabbed browsing