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Story: Berners-Lee challenges 'stupid' male geek culture

Posted by: LadyRoot (Tuesday 25 September 2007, 2:54 PM)

A woman? In IT?

Well, it's not so simple, as Mr. B-L says.

I have been working in IT departments for ten years now, and I have experienced a lot of discrimination. The fact is, those, who tried to put me away from IT, were not members of IT community at all!!

I do work for a IT-telecommunication company as a Business Intelligence systems supervisor and designer. The whole department is divided 50/50 as looking at employees' gender. I would never say any of my co-workers ever pionted out, that my gender has any effect for my quality of work, at all!

However, I was four years unemployed. I mean, I had hundreds of part-time jobs, but couldn't get a full-time job at all. The people at jobs agencies were not interested even to interview women for IT positions (especially helpdesk or service).

All these stupid statistics e.g. "over 90% IT workers are male" do not mean that we are discrimined. It only means, that is a bit harder to get into the business, because of the stereotypes and patriarchic society. It will change, as everything else. The gender is not a problem anymore.

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