Comments on: Happy Ada Lovelace Day http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/women-in-it/happy-ada-lovelace-day/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: LornaJane http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/women-in-it/happy-ada-lovelace-day/comment-page-1/#comment-795 LornaJane Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:52:40 +0000 http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/?p=157#comment-795 Don't be anonymous - OK so it can be contraversial because its a sensitive subject but this is a great debate you are starting here. I am female (look out for the very pink website, just in case anyone was unsure) and I am a software developer. I think you are right - women need to learn to put themselves forward. Conference organisers can't accept talk proposals from women if there aren't any. Give the women you know a push and tell them to get out there, blog, write, submit talks - let's be one another's role models Don’t be anonymous – OK so it can be contraversial because its a sensitive subject but this is a great debate you are starting here. I am female (look out for the very pink website, just in case anyone was unsure) and I am a software developer. I think you are right – women need to learn to put themselves forward. Conference organisers can’t accept talk proposals from women if there aren’t any. Give the women you know a push and tell them to get out there, blog, write, submit talks – let’s be one another’s role models

]]> By: Non Gender Specific IT Person http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/women-in-it/happy-ada-lovelace-day/comment-page-1/#comment-789 Non Gender Specific IT Person Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:35:03 +0000 http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/?p=157#comment-789 "Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognized." Um... so it's not like men who want recognition need to work hard, blog and submit proposals to speak at conferences, is it? Interesting that only one of the women you gave a shout out to actually has a blog... A symptom or a cause of low visibility of women in IT? Maybe in some way related to the lack of recognition? People (men and women) gain recognition in the industry by contributing to the industry - sharing ideas, creating tools etc. A lot of smart women do that. I don't believe they get any less recognition, per person, than the men do. It's just that there are less of them. I don't believe women in IT get any special treatment for better or for worse. Do you think they should? So yes, great idea to actively promote women in IT, but it's nothing compared to the natural promotion that comes from being good at your job and, importantly, investing the time to share that. “Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognized.”

Um… so it’s not like men who want recognition need to work hard, blog and submit proposals to speak at conferences, is it?

Interesting that only one of the women you gave a shout out to actually has a blog… A symptom or a cause of low visibility of women in IT? Maybe in some way related to the lack of recognition?

People (men and women) gain recognition in the industry by contributing to the industry – sharing ideas, creating tools etc. A lot of smart women do that. I don’t believe they get any less recognition, per person, than the men do. It’s just that there are less of them. I don’t believe women in IT get any special treatment for better or for worse.

Do you think they should?

So yes, great idea to actively promote women in IT, but it’s nothing compared to the natural promotion that comes from being good at your job and, importantly, investing the time to share that.

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