Oh Please
I spent my entire career in IT eventually managing large IT departments and never once did my colleagues or I ever stop to consider whether we were hiring male or female candidates.
The question was always: can this IT worker do the job and will they fit into our environment. Sometimes the best person(s) was a man; sometimes it was a woman. Salaries were inevitably negotiated by HR and followed a standard structure. There was no 'salary discrimination.'
When I think back over the best developers / project managers / architects / network specialists/ web designers / managers I knew and employed maybe thirty percent or so were women. (The disparity is because fewer of them take up an IT career.)
Indeed there are two that I can think of in the top 1%.
The article and the whole concept of 'women in IT' is insulting to IT women and IT workers in general who, I argue, are a pretty fair minded lot.
These silly articles are simply a journalists attempt to drum up controversy which I am sure irritates many IT readers.
