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Computer Blog - thebroadroom.net: Women in technology
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. TheBroadroom.Net urges you to use your own instincts,
common sense, and willingness to take risks when applying any of the information below.
Women in technology
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Saturday, January 28, 2006
at 7:47 PM (Pacific)
I was googling around...idly...I googled as follows:
computer blog women
I pulled up my own blog (if only because of the keywords) and some articles speculating why there aren't more women in technical fields.
The articles were interesting...a lot of people in the U.S. agreed that women and men were staying away from tech, because so much of those jobs had been outsourced.
Some people scratched their heads over it; some people concluded that women were simply wired differently from men. That women found technology boring and would prefer to do other things.
I've been writing this same post over and over again...I can never make this post sound un-controversial. (Yes, TheBroadroom.Net has a policy that we are not to write about political, religious or otherwise controversial subjects.)
Before I sound sad over it, I'm the one who proposed that rule to begin with...because it seemed to me that so many sites directed towards women were political in the sense of having only one political viewpoint. Either you agreed with the viewpoint 100% or else you were made to feel that the site held nothing for you. Hence, when we were putting together TheBroadroom, I specifically did not want to publish political content. This is The Broad Room: all broads are welcome. :)
I strongly disagree that women are any different from men as far as technology. I tutored programming for a year at my university. I tutored both men and women. You could not tell from someone's code, what gender they were; I challenge anyone to do that.
I did notice that some cultures seemed to encourage women into these fields much more than others. For example, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures seemed to make much less of a big deal out of a woman (albeit typically a richer one) going into technical fields.
Whereas our culture...our Western culture...really makes you feel weird if you're a female computer geek.
The geeks themselves of course were always okay. I've always felt comfortable around my fellow geeks, male and female.
I don't know where I'm going with this. I do think it is largely a cultural issue and it varies widely from culture to culture; it is not imo a global phenomenon.
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