Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:33 PM
Sarah’s is trying to positively sexual discriminate!
Let me explain, Sarah Blow of WaterBaby blog fame is trying to put together a female centric ‘Geek meet’, geek males can come as long as they are accompanied by a geek female.Her reasons are simple, she wants to get to know other females in the I.T. industry.
See her site for more details.
It doesn’t take a whole raft of statistics to show that I.T. isn’t exactly awash with the fairer-sex. I know that many put this down to basic stereotypical gender interests driven partly by society influences and may even be a touch of physiology in their too i.e. female babies prefer playing with people than objects, it’s the opposite for male babies.
It is apparent that I.T. in as industry that has many rewards to offer and opportunities to have. An influx of female talent would certainly enrich our industry with a badly needed fresh perspectives as a large percent of eventual users are female.
So how do you believe we should attract more females into a career in I.T? Will events like Sarahs help?
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