Via Slashdot and Feministing, an article at Computer World that serves as a reminder that it’s still hard out there for a girl with geek tendencies. Bits and pieces:
You can balance an IT career with your home life, but it means making choices that are true to your priorities and understanding the trade-offs. “Having it all” is a fantasy.
Except for men, of course, whom no one expect to choose between work and family...
But Sun’s culture is friendly to women, particularly in its flexibility about working from home, [Katy Dickinson] says. And sometimes she is so well accepted that male co-workers seem to forget her gender. “I’ve been in meetings with executives, who, when I say I have to pick up the kids, have almost responded, ‘Can’t you have your wife do it?’” she recalls.
So women can only succeed as long as they’re not really women?
Also from Feministe comes commentary on this rather disgusting ad, which demonstrates how male-oriented IT still is:
As the commentary at Feministe points out, this ad presupposes that all men should expect that any given hot hot hot chick must offer oral sex... except that, the bitches, they don’t offer it to geeks. Women and geeks of all genders should be offended.
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