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Re: [LUG] Why are there so few women in our LUG - does this indicate there are few female Linux users ?

 

viv wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 11:02 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Quoting Clare Shepherd <clareeshepherd@xxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> I think that it's partly our fault, in that women often, but not
>>> always and maybe less so with younger women, see an all male enclave
>>> of IT people, bikers, golfers or whatever, as slightly threatening,
>>> intimidating etc. I think this is a trait that is improving, in that
>>> men are more used to having women included and we are getting used to
>>> it too.
>> <snip>
>>
>> I find it interesting that this discussion has come up.  We're getting  
>> a trainee broadcast engineer where I work, I was pleasantly surprised  
>> to find out that the applicant who was offered the job was a young (I  
>> think) lady from up north.  IIRC we only have one other female  
>> broadcast engineer in the entire company but two girls on the Helpdesk.
>>
>> Could it be worth some of the women in IT (or professions that have  
>> typically been male dominated - plumbing, building etc) going to  
>> secondary schools and giving talks and maybe encouraging more women  
>> into these male dominated professions?
>>
>> Throughout my 12 years working in IT only a couple of the places I've  
>> worked at have had women working in IT roles, and the majority of them  
>> have been Helpdesk type roles.
>>
>> Rob
>>

> I think this is a great idea and would be happy to do it. However, I am
> not working in IT now - was up to 6 months ago. When I was, I wouldn't
> have had the time to volunteer for something like this. However, I think
> that I could do a good "selling job" as I really enjoyed my time in IT
> and believe strongly that women can get a lot out of making this type of
> career choice.
> 
> Any idea of how I could go about volunteering my services to the
> education sector ?
> 
> Viv
> 
> 

Not sure how you'd go about it, maybe Paul might be able to advise on 
this.  Possibly try speaking to the ICT Teachers at a local secondary 
school?

Rob


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