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Story: Why are women in IT an endangered species?

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Well the woman who said monoculture is bad in IT was wrong. From 1978-1998 IT (at least desktop PCs) was a 95% white American male industry. And it was flying high then. Now that we have fragmented it, split it up, thrown in every other culture and race from the world, there has been no innovation in the past 7 years. Except for Apple - which is still a relatively white-male dominated company. There is a reason for that. It's not racism. There are just some things that some cultures are better at than others. Japanese and Germans are great at making cars. Swiss are great skiers. Bralizians are great soccer players. It's not racist or gender-biased to say so. The fact is *good* software (not just any software) is the sole realm of the white American male. People trying to force square pegs into round holes will not make it otherwise.

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