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My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)Posted Sep 27, 2007 8:18 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet) by njs Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet) Maybe your numbers are just wrong, maybe you are in a place that is more backwards than the USA (are there such places?); no idea. I've worked in three different countries, visited workplaces at other three countries, even in Scandinavia which supposed to be very emancipated, still I haven't noticed that 28% percent women. I had three female bosses so far, that's more than the amount of female software developers in the current project I'm working in (~20 developers, 1 female). Also, though I know saying this is futile: the sexist crack about secretaries was unnecessary and vile. Unfortunately political correctness sometimes leads to decreasing sense of humour. Anyway, when I was 10 years old and we had a kind of computer class in the school (completely voluntary, at afternoons), I don't seem to remember many girls attending. I don't seem to remember that there were any girls at all, even though the teacher was a female math teacher. I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the impoliteness of some developers: if it's not biology, then it's a socialization issue at a quite young age. One more note: I know a couple of people personally, who work in financial jobs. Auditors, controllers, etc. All of them are female. I don't know much about that environment, but I think it's harsher than software development, after all, they work with hard money.
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