Women in IT

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/women-in-it.html
4/30/09

I  read an article called A Painful Decision recently.
There has been some discussion in recent days in the Rails community about appropriate conference presentations, whether women feel welcome in the Rails community, and related issues. I don't intend to review the entire mess here - you can find it if you want it. For what it's worth, I think the original presentation was an inappropriate and regrettable mistake. However, far more disturbing to me are the reactions to the discussion on the part of some of the Rails community.

Thursday, 30 April 2009
Women in IT
Zoe Brain

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/women-in-it.html

As a side issue (for once) there's a comment on the Telegraph that reads, in part,

    If male and female brains operate differently, how do we account for transgender issues, and when the girls are as good as boys at all sorts of things... We can also change our hardwiring, look at concepts such as long-term potentation for example and treatments of depression.

You can guess how I answered....

this article's already been posted:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,59355.0.html