Anonymous

Suffolk

IT management

Encouraging women to work in IT from school through University (or apprenticeship etc) would be good. The may just realise in the real world (or at least with small businesses) it’s hectic. No (small) budgets for new equipment (trying to keep 6 year old PC’s going for another year), new technology and old (that you cannot get the funding or time off to train for [OK evenings at home…..]). It goes wrong, and its always important to have it fixed NOW etc, very lucky to get thanks keeping it all going for 99.5% of the time.
Thinking of moving into beauty therapy (now lots of openings for males, can do nails (L&P, tips etc) want to train for waxing), doing work which pleases, and where customers are pleased and return because they want to, along with my fitness and health related qualifications.
There can be a large amount of knowledge to acquire to cover all IT (platforms, operating systems, packages, licensing, networking, database design, mobile convergence…), more than most other professions, which for the remuneration, job satisfaction and life/work balance may not be considered worth it… could be that women have already analysed this…