Women and the IT Industry
The computer industry should offer ideal conditions for the employment of women. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Both because the computer industry's managers are too stupid to employ them and because women have been put off by the idea that jobs involve being a slave to an inhuman computer screen. Computing should attract women. It is clean, light work with a best results are obtained by intelligence applying cooperative work groups. All large computer sites run around the clock which provides for flexible working hours. Indeed, much IT work can be down from home. Because of the pace at which the industry advances, staffs need regular skills updates which should make it easier for women to be retrained and reemployed if they take time out to have a family. Nor does computing have any of the entrenched working practices which might keep women out. It does not have 100 years old demarcation lines. The work force is expending not contracting. Hiring women ought to be easy. Under the circumstances, it is almost unbelivable that the number of women being taken into the computing industry is declining.
The computer industry should offer ideal conditions for the employment of women. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Both because the computer industry's managers are too stupid to employ them and because women have been put off by the idea that jobs involve being a slave to an inhuman computer screen. Computing should attract women. It is clean, light work with a best results are obtained by intelligence applying cooperative work groups. All large computer sites run around the clock which provides for flexible working hours. Indeed, much IT work can be down from home. Because of the pace at which the industry advances, staffs need regular skills updates which should make it easier for women to be retrained and reemployed if they take time out to have a family. Nor does computing have any of the entrenched working practices which might keep women out. It does not have 100 years old demarcation lines. The work force is expending not contracting. Hiring women ought to be easy. Under the circumstances, it is almost unbelivable that the number of women being taken into the computing industry is declining.
