I'm all in favor of men and women being 'different'. The issue I have is the perception that you will be better or worse at something based on your gender. Or that even a gender superiority in a field of endeavor has any applicability to a given situation.
i.e. Men may run the 100 metres faster than women, but Florence Griffith-Joyner is a hell of a lot faster at the 100 metres than I am. You might argue that there is something about IT that may attract many more men than women. Is it cultural? Genetic? (I suspect cultural, for instance, I see far more female developers from India or China than I do from Anglo Saxon Australian) But to argue that men are *better* at IT than women I find extremely dubious if only because IT is a field of great diversity and a wide range of job roles involving a great many different skills. Even the role of software developer can't be described as a single personality type/skill set. Finally, if your looking at a female colleague and thinking their idea is inferior because she's female... well, you are a dick. On Dec 10, 3:45 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Male professionals test each-other in any trade, as do sports stars, > bulls, etc. and that may have something to do with a higher > testosterone level... nah scratch that, I forgot it's politically > incorrect and sexist to suggest men and women may be different. :) > > On Dec 9, 5:01 pm, Scott Melton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I find it hard to believe that women would hide behind a > > > male name. > > > Maybe they do not want to be verbally abused, as unlikely as that > > would > > happen. I've been reading this forum for a while now. Many of you > > would jump > > out in front of a moving train to pop another guy for misstating > > something. > > I don't think any of you would do that to a woman. At least, not with > > the same, > > uh, enthusiasm? > > > If you are like the CS "professionals" I have worked with in Colorado > > and Texas, > > (for 20 years) every last one of you would fall all over yourself > > being polite and > > encouraging to a woman. That is what boys do. > > > If I were a woman, hhmmm maybe I am... no, if I were a woman I'd be > > proud of that in this profession and want every guy to know it. > > > Especially if I were hot. > > > On Dec 9, 5:04 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Diane. Even expanding beyond this group, it's hard to come up a list > > > of public female coders. Within the Java space, Jeanette (kleopatra) > > > from Swinglabs comes to mind. Beyond the Java space it doesn't get > > > much easier. I find it hard to believe that women would hide behind a > > > male name. > > > > On Dec 9, 11:45 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 9, 10:26 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > About the topic of this thread... unless I'm misreading some foreign > > > > > names, it seems there are no women in this mailing list... right? > > > > > There is one, whose name escapes me at the moment. And, of course, > > > > there's no way of knowing if any of the posters' names are real. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
