Reply to: attracting more females into IT

[janey]

Plenty of gorgeous women in IT in Denmark. It is true that some companies don't have many or any women, but that sort of firm is usually best avoided anyways (if they're misogynist they're generally racist too etc. etc..)

by the sounds of that's the kind of place most people on here work!

[The Lone Gunman]

OI!!!!!

If that upsets you, wait till you see what I said about a picture posted by Lucifer.

[janey]

That looks more like the typical woman in IT to me.

OI!!!!!

[threaded]

Plenty of gorgeous women in IT in Denmark. It is true that some companies don't have many or any women, but that sort of firm is usually best avoided anyways (if they're misogynist they're generally racist too etc. etc..)

[Helios]

Why are most wemon in IT so bitchy and power hungry?

Every time I arrive to fix a female sys admins printer, server, desktop, she always starts grinning, as if saying, go get your hands cut, while I swing my mouse around and gossip with my friends.

Never get any thanks, tea or coffee. Just the "why is it taking so long." Next time I get this at the end of a contract, will just ask her to replace the system board and backbone herself, while I fix her users folder permissions and chit chat with them.

Look forward so much to when I'm older and will give them an hour to close or filter every port on their network and deduct their pay for every spam email on exchange server.

[mcquiggd]

They all look a bit rough to me....

[ladymuck]

Rather worryingly, my other half is a curious hybrid (personality-wise) between the irish chap and the geek with the glasses.

[DimPrawn]

I have a "thing" for Jen as well.

[Phoenix]

I will forever be in lurve with Jen from the Channel 4 series "The IT Crowd"
Jen

[sappatz]

It

IT is a reserved territory of macho men

[hyperD]

http://www.itgoddess.info/

And they're all Aussies it seems

I don't know how Megyn can be an IT contractor - how can she use a keyboard with an Abu Hamza-styled hook?

[monkeyboy]

And the ability to nonchalantly pick your nose while talking to a client and then eating the resulting bounty without batting an eyelid.

I have to agree with that one.

8. The ability when attending a meeting, to accept that the majority of the male attendants are staring at your tits and not listening to a word you say

[hyperD]

The reason there are not that many women in technical IT (apart from a few exceptions) is that the skills required are mainly male traits: logic, drive, focus on results.

And the ability to nonchalantly pick your nose while talking to a client and then eating the resulting bounty without batting an eyelid.

[The_Gimp]

The reason there are not that many women in technical IT (apart from a few exceptions) is that the skills required are mainly male traits: logic, drive, focus on results.

The mans right.

[sasguru]

The reason there are not that many women in technical IT (apart from a few exceptions) is that the skills required are mainly male traits: logic, drive, focus on results.