On 16 Oct 98, Luana M. Howard wrote:
> >AND is the % of students entering computer science *as a whole* on the
> >increase or decrease?
> >
>
> Hmm. I wouldn't know, but about half of the students in my computer
> science classes are women. This is for night/weekend classes where the
> avg. age is 35 - older than regular/week day students.
An encouraging sign, certainly.
I recall when I was with Corel that we attracted very very few
women to purely technical positions, although there were plenty of
them in non-technical management positions -- sales, marketing,
advertising, and so on.
Our CEO actively sought out qualified women for important positions
with the company, but we rarely if ever had female applicants for
programming or related tech jobs. In my department we had one
young woman doing QA -- testing and troubleshooting firmware --
but she was definitely an anomaly. From my extensive contact with
many other high-tech firms back then, I would venture to say that
we were typical in this regard.
I certainly wouldn't attribute this trend to "old boy" networks or
other forms of sexism; the company was about 90% GenXers, with
very liberal politics and social attitudes, and as I say the CEO tried
to find good candidates himself. They just didn't seem to be
available.
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