Back when I was taking engineering clasess, If one girl walked in - we were all ... cool ... there is a girl in this class If two girls walked in - we started getting suspicious. If 3 girls walked in, we were definitely in the wrong class and started checking to see where we should be.
I think that is different now adays, probably have at least 2 girls in some engineering classes. On the other hand I was in a international relations class, and there was only 1 guy in the whole class, all of the rest were girls. I actually was not in the class, but running the projector. At 08:27 AM 9/20/2011, James Rankin wrote: >I wouldn't discriminate against anyone based on age when recruiting, >and I've never experienced any, but at 35 I guess it would be >unlikely for me to experience it yet. > >I work with a couple of guys who are in their 50s and the experience >they have is invaluable. Having said that, there are also some 50 >(and 60) -somethings in the Apps team downstairs and they are >useless. Age is immaterial - there are good and bad staff in both >young and old camps. > >I'd be more inclined to think that there's a bit of sexism rather >than age-ism in the IT sector, but that's just my own experience. >But I hardly ever seem to work with ladies (more's the pity). Don't >know whether that's down to discrimination or just the fact that as >a rule girls don't seem to be interested in IT as a career, >particularly at the more technical levels (no sexism intended there, >before all the technically-minded ladies on the list flame me). > >Cheers, > >On 20 September 2011 13:22, Daniel Evensen ><<mailto:dane...@att.net>dane...@att.net> wrote: > >Age Discrimination in IT: I have read several articles online that >states that age Discrimination in IT is more prevalent than in other >fields. Question, do you find this true or false? If you find it >true how do you handle it? > >I am a former NT System Administrator that was semi-retired and that >wants to return to the IT field after a 10 year absence. >Financially, I do not need to work but want to. 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