
By Natasha Lomas
Published: Monday 01 December 2008
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Name
M Rizzo
Location
Suffolk
Occupation
Consultant
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This article makes it sound like IT is dominated by blokes who don't want women around them. This couldn't be further from the truth - if anything a lot of techie blokes are frustrated that there don't seem to be many women who take an interest in IT, and worse that many women perceive IT people as boring geeks.
Sure the industry could do more to attract women, but please don't make it sound like there's some deliberate attempt to keep women out. Nobody is stopping women from taking CS at uni - so why do so few women choose to take it ?
Why force women into IT?
They're not keen on it...
Anthony Hunt
This article makes it sound like IT is dominated b...
M Rizzo
Equality and sameness are not synonymous. There is...
Michael Hart
Yet hairdressing is women dominate.
Go to any h...
dom
Encouraging women to work in IT from school throug...
Anonymous
But is the proportion of women in IT representativ...
Drew Stephenson
I disagree, with just about everything Natasha say...
NKAWTG
i'm a woman with 15 years experience in IT - a var...
Tracey
Yes, I think we do need more women in IT. The male...
Anonymous
women need no help to choose their carer. not anym...
Jori
Funny thing is, our HR department is almost exclus...
drew stephenson
I am a woman, worked in IT for years and loved it....
Anonymous
I once worked briefly in a female dominated IT env...
Radical Meldrew
My best managers have been women. They treat comp...
Richard Sarson
Isn't this just plain old biological gender differ...
Richard Reece
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