[The Java Posse] Re: An open letter to women Java Posse listeners (and their coworkers) ...

[Dianne Marsh]

My business is equally owned by myself and Bill Wagner.  We employ 16 people, of whom 4 are women, and 3 are developers (including myself in that count).  The other woman is our office manager. So I suspect that relatively speaking, we're looking pretty diverse. As for the question Casper asked (what's the ratio that I see), I have had the same experience as most of you.  At most of the user group meetings I attend, I'm the only woman.  I know one other JP listener who attends user groups and is a woman (waving at you Kirsten), but she can't attend the Roundup.  Her alternate language of choice is Groovy. The 2 devs who work for me are currently working in .NET, Ruby, and Python.   One has a PhD in ME and the other has a CS degree. It's always startling to me that there aren't more women software developers.  This is a profession that I really enjoy and I don't understand why larger numbers of women are not drawn to it.  It just baffles me. Dianne Robert Casto wrote: My company (PCMS) seems to be more diverse than average. We have a number of women working in IT though I would say it is still probably only 15%. Most of the women at my company are in Human Resources, Marketing, Accounting, and a number of office management jobs. All of these positions have women in them. There may be certain types of jobs women gravitate to just by nature. Women tend to multi-task better than men. They also tend to communicate better and the jobs I listed need those skills. I don't want to start a flame war of course. I'm just saying that people's skills tend to direct them toward certain jobs. There is no way I would want to do HR, Marketing, Accounting, and so on. Conversely, the people in these jobs would rather not do what I do. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Rakesh <rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com> wrote: we have about 30 developers of which one is female at my current company. I think in the UK it is known that women do not seem attracted to careers in IT. Not sure why. Incidentally, the teams I have worked on with higher ratios of women have been Indian offshore/onshore teams. R On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think there are two females out of about 100 developers in my > company. This is not by choice. We just don't get many females that > apply for positions. > > I'm involved in two local user groups. One focuses on Java and has an > attendance around 45. The other focuses on functional and dynamic > languages and has an attendance around 35. It is very rare to see a > single female developer at either group. > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com casto.rob...@gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---