I guess I took the opposite slant on the article. I remember when (20 years ago) there were .01 women programmers and analysts. A rise to the 25%-30% range is very encouraging to me. Most women programmers that I know do not think of themselves as programmers. Some were administrative assistants who learned programming on their own time to try and bridge the gap between what was given to them by predominately male programmers and business needs. I still see the same situation in most of my business clients today. I've made multiple references when speaking about technology to the article at http://www.nfwbo.org/rr015.htm which is a survey commissioned by IBM and completed by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners. It's a small survey but the results match 20 years of observations. According to the survey women use email more, use the internet for research, review business opportunities, have more web sites, etc. I also have a printed article, somewhere, that indicates that small companies who are more open to using internet services are more profitable. I know that it's the women realtors in the local MLS that drove the decision to replace their aging Unix system with an internet system and many times it's the women within my corporate clients who become informal mentors during an automation presentation and implementation. Women may not be studying technology but we're sure using it. Christie (Started with Fortran in 1972 and just kept growing-no degrees) ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
