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Andrew_C

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I wonder if... the gender ratio had been different in the early days of IT development, whether the architecture of PCs, operating systems and networks would have been different, reflecting the differences between M&F brains.
russdev

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I don't find teaching as a female-dominated role at all. Certainly, for me, teaching makes me think of very old-school professors cloaked up - after all, many, many moons ago learning was something that boys were encouraged to do, and women not so. Maybe my experience of secondary schools leads me to think this, but I find teaching a very balanced profession indeed. This may have shifted over the years, certainly.. and for me - primary schools are certainly more female-oriented places. It's to do with the nuture thing we women (supposedly) harbour.

 

I do agree it is more balanced now and yes primary sector still very female based also we have grown into a culture where if male teacher wants to work in primary school they are looked upon with that look of "are they some kind of pervert".

 

But still most of the time unless its a boys school general rule women teacher outnumber male.

 

and @Tony

 

Well not lot can say to that??

 

Russ

indiegirl

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@IndieGirl

 

Gender issues aside, how did you go from an English stundent to IT geek.

 

Was it always something in the background?

 

It was sheer luck, actually - I always had a keen interest in IT all through school, but was at school before IT really came into the curriculum - there was no GCSE nor A Level at my school in IT. So I went with what I got the highest grades in... at uni too. (couldn't afford to stop my course and start on a new one halfway through!)

 

I just got a v lucky break by getting onto a large corporate bank's Graduate IT Scheme, and it kind of panned from there, really... even then, I was the only girl in my team of 20, until another woman joined us alongside 3 other men... so we were 1:11 females to males in that particular team!

 

 

I wonder if... the gender ratio had been different in the early days of IT development, whether the architecture of PCs, operating systems and networks would have been different, reflecting the differences between M&F brains.

 

I fully believe that it probably would've had a massive influence on how things were developed. Heck - only now are we seeing 'pretty' OS's like Vista coming out ;). Seriously though, I wonder what the chances are in 50 years' time of seeing a female equivalent of Bill Gates??

beeswax

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I don't find teaching as a female-dominated role at all. Certainly, for me, teaching makes me think of very old-school professors cloaked up - after all, many, many moons ago learning was something that boys were encouraged to do, and women not so. Maybe my experience of secondary schools leads me to think this, but I find teaching a very balanced profession indeed. This may have shifted over the years, certainly.. and for me - primary schools are certainly more female-oriented places. It's to do with the nuture thing we women (supposedly) harbour.

 

my experience as someone who was a governor at a primary school was that few males applied for teaching posts, and this was seen as a problem as there were no/very few positive male role models for pupils. However, when it comes to primary school heads the proportion of males to females is much higher. when I think back to my own time at primary school (late '50's early '60's) the only male there was the head. someone somewhere's probably done a paper on it.

as the father of 2 daughters I've always been keen to stress that they are at least the equal of any male, except when it comes to housework, neither of them being able to hold a candle to my ironing skills. I don't like to boast, but...(cont. page 94)

pshuttle

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I have found over the years that I probably get on better with women than men in the workplace.

 

I think it is a shame that more women are not involved in the industry - the few women who I have met who have been working in IT have been highly professional people.

 

It annoys me that IT is perceived as a male profession - there is no reason why it should be!

 

Pete

Pottsey

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I always though there was a high ratio of female IT staff to male. When I left my old school a lady got my IT Technician job and at my current school the previous IT tech was a lady. That and my IT co-coordinator is female.

 

The last KS3 Onscreen ICT workshop was interesting not so much what they where talking about but who turned up. Out of all the IT staff I believe we started with only 1 other male in the room, excluding the talkers.

 

I don’t know how others feel but I find in special needs schools the gender ratio leans heavily to female even in the more traditional male only jobs.

 

One think I learnt when working around so many females. Never, ever under and circumstance enter the staffroom on makeup day when a bunch of new products arrive.

GrumbleDook

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Ok ... time to own up ... I'll stop being anonymous now ...

 

I am actually female and have been sending out my brother to all the evenets where people think they have seen me.

 

My real name is Mandy and I love being a Geek.

 

 

Mandy, you're going bald y'know!

 

I also need a shave ... and this was a few years ago.

apeo

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Ok ... time to own up ... I'll stop being anonymous now ...

 

I am actually female and have been sending out my brother to all the evenets where people think they have seen me.

 

My real name is Mandy and I love being a Geek.

 

 

Mandy, you're going bald y'know!

 

I also need a shave ... and this was a few years ago.

 

Thats disturbing :?

Guest

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Ok ... time to own up ... I'll stop being anonymous now ...

 

I am actually female and have been sending out my brother to all the evenets where people think they have seen me.

 

My real name is Mandy and I love being a Geek.

 

 

Mandy, you're going bald y'know!

 

I also need a shave ... and this was a few years ago.

 

Ahhh my eyes my eyes :D

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