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Story: Why are women in IT an endangered species?

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Scientific, Technical and related commerical fields have a rigor that often quickly exposes inadequate, 2nd rate or inappropriate (all be it good) solutions . Regardless of the gender or race of those contributing. I have often found technical females lacking, other companies solutions lacking and work from my colluges lacking. I have often found my own skills and abilities lacking in comparison to others. My experience is that 90% of people could'nt write adequate software with the current tools and 90 % of those writing software could do a better job but wont for one reason or another.
In technical fields we have to resist the temptation to put eachother on the scrapheap just because the goalposts have moved in terms of skillsets and in vogue technologies.
New ways of doing things and a different viewpoint are always needed but will mostly never make any money or even see the light of day regardless of who is innovating.

However commercial reality is that for lots of companies unless you deliver regardless of the difficulties you are of little use to that company and will start to feel the cold shoulder . Also whats wrong with realisng that you are in the wrong job !!! Better sooner than later. Square peg round hole?
Forgive the spelling - inadequate techie

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