Mark Chimes (1/5/2010)
Phil Factor (1/5/2010)
Some estimates describe an alarming percentage fall from 40% to 20%. Clearly something must be done to reverse the trend.</A>[/B]Why?
If there previously were 40% and now are 20% it indicates that there's some bias at work. You can't say that women aren't interested, if that was the case, that 40% would not have occurred in the past. Maybe there's some cultural bias that's people's interests away from IT. If that's the case, we could be losing potentially top people who are interested but who avoid the profession because of some bias, and that's bad for the profession as a whole.
While women are perfectly capable of thinking logically, it is men who display this characteristic at a lower level of their thought processes.
Citation please, or is that your opinion?
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability