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

Posted by: andrewdonoghue (Thursday 27 September 2007, 5:28 PM)

So the IT industry is blameless?

Roberto - you seem to be saying that the reason that that there aren't enough women in IT is simply because...well...there aren't enough women in IT ??

You don't really address why the recruitment agencies don't have the CV's to send you - which is addressing the symptoms of the problem but not the causes.

Surely it is a self-sustaining problem - the IT industry is male dominated, which puts of women from applying, which means the industry continues to be male dominated. The only way to break that cycle is to take a long hard look at the culture of technology companies and departments and question if they really are as productive as they could be given their obvious male bias.

Addressing comments made about women preferring to spend time with people than interfacing with technology - surely a lot of the usability issues that exist with software is a result of design by engineers for engineers - but impenetrable to everyone else. Anythign that breaks that bubble has to be good thing - which is not necessarily some special gift of women but just re-thinking the snobbish culture that surrounds some tech jobs.

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