Funny you should say this.
Funny you should say this.
Posted Sep 29, 2007 8:09 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #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...