Funny you should say this. [LWN.net]

Funny you should say this.

Posted Sep 29, 2007 8:09 UTC (Sat) by khim (guest, #9252)
In reply to: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet) by Sertorius
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

I've seen a lot of "women in Engineering" in Russia. Testers, designers, writers. And one software engineer - among hundred or so.

I've also seen few women who have title "software engineer" but actually are creating Excel spreadsheets and test plans - and know nothing about complexities, scalability, etc. When they needed some serious redesign of system - invariable they shuffled it to the male colleague or subcontractor... Why they were there and had title "software engineer" ? Yup: they were legacy of "after World War II" era...

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