Comments on: SIME Talks 6: Women and the Tech World - is it a bad marriage? http://sime.nu/2009/08/women-tech-scene/ Innovation, inspiration and great people. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:47:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: SIME Talks - the Digest Edition at SIME http://sime.nu/2009/08/women-tech-scene/comment-page-1/#comment-1653 SIME Talks - the Digest Edition at SIME Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:27:03 +0000 http://sime.nu/?p=2423#comment-1653 [...] Number 6 brought the focus light on women and their supposed bad marriage to the tech world. Why do men always outnumber women in every board meeting, every conference, every speaker roster? The talk is here [...] [...] Number 6 brought the focus light on women and their supposed bad marriage to the tech world. Why do men always outnumber women in every board meeting, every conference, every speaker roster? The talk is here [...]

]]> By: Adam Bell http://sime.nu/2009/08/women-tech-scene/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Adam Bell Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:47:17 +0000 http://sime.nu/?p=2423#comment-827 "high pressure jobs with a family life to balance" - is this statement not contradictory to the essence of your whole point? Making a specific point that associates women strongly with family life - and that the balance they achieve is somehow peculiar to them. Placing the woman as the centre of the household and the man as being only responsible for income only reinforces stereotypes. "In 1942 the ENIAC was programmed not by men but by six women" - probably because all the men were knee deep in blood and bullets - "caught between what [he] sees as right in culture and what [he] really wants to do". Not that you'd find many men writing articles about they're historical role in wars that's accepted as default. “high pressure jobs with a family life to balance” - is this statement not contradictory to the essence of your whole point? Making a specific point that associates women strongly with family life - and that the balance they achieve is somehow peculiar to them. Placing the woman as the centre of the household and the man as being only responsible for income only reinforces stereotypes.

“In 1942 the ENIAC was programmed not by men but by six women” - probably because all the men were knee deep in blood and bullets - “caught between what [he] sees as right in culture and what [he] really wants to do”. Not that you’d find many men writing articles about they’re historical role in wars that’s accepted as default.

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