• It's a great pity that we will always have bigots amongst us because humanity is not perfect; but that's how it is. I wish I had been there to hear the remark (and would probably have been pretty offensive if I had been) but I wasn't and I don't know who was involved so there's nothing I can do; except to continue to try to ensure that amongst my own circle any display of this attitude is known to be unacceptable.

    I've known quite a few women who worked in technology, so that I know that it's just as easy for a women to be expert on a technical subject as it is for a man; it's also of course just as easy for a woman to be incompetent at communicating technical ideas as it is for a man. I haven't observed any difference in this respect between the sexes in my four decades plus in computing and IT.

    Tom