RE: Orawomen

My youngest is in high school and is the only woman taking mechanic drawing. She is the best in the class. The instructor was berating the boys that a 'girl' was beating them until my daughter told the instructor to keep gender out of it! She also wanted to join the Chess Club but one of the boys (who was the 'best' player) said girls can't play chess. She beat the jerk 2 out of 3 games and stalemated him in the third while others were watching. She chose not to join. Sweet. So some of the old stereotypes are still out there.

Where I work the majority of programmers are women and DBA's are even.

Jerry Whittle
ASIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:wisernet100_at_yahoo.com]
>
> I think that within the population of women in IT, the number of female
> Oracle DBAs is increasing. However, in general, the number of women
> entering IT is decreasing. That is, the number of women who are
> encouraged to become DBAs or developers or network admins or sys admins
> is decreasing.
>
> I've noticed (I have a friend with a 13 year old son and a 16 year old
> daughter) that the schools are not encouraging girls to go into science
> or math. There have been studies done that show that teachers in those
> fields tend to call on the girls in the class less and spend less time
> helping them understand the subjects.
>
> My opinion only
>
> Rachel
>
>

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