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

Posted by: pround (Saturday 22 September 2007, 12:30 PM)

Discrimination is not the real issue

In my experience there tends to be a lot of 'positive discrimination' in favour of women in the IT industry. The few women I have worked with in this sector have always been treated very well even at the expense of their male colleagues. Now I'm not saying that is a bad thing but maybe discrimination is not the issue. While I have worked with women who enjoy technology as much as I do, these attitudes in women do seem to be rare. In other words most women find the whole tech industry crashingly boring, it doesn't interest them at all, so they don't go for it as a career. This is really about a mind set and where there are a high percentage of men really enthusiastic about technology, most women couldn't care less about it. I think this has more to do with the lack of women in the industry, and nothing is going to change that. Women prefer interacting with people rather than machines, that's why they don't choose tech careers.

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