CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy's club Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's director Jen Easterly has been outspoken in her drive to bring more women into the security industry, and this year for International Women's Day her agency formalized that pledge by announcing a partnership with nonprofit Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS). The US department of …
The first problem you have is that you're already too late! You need to get to the young girls when they start school, ideally before at kindergarten age, teach them as early as possible that tech and STEM in general doesn't care if you're a girl or a boy.
The problem is that even by kindergarten age the "damage" is already done, boys and girls have already been brainwashed into gender roles. Now don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with gender roles but as my wife was told way too many times growing up, "What the hell do you want to learn about computers for?! They're for boys to play with!", so she grew up like most young girls and ended up in a teaching role in a nursery school. I met my wife when she was 16 and I've encouraged her these last 30 years to enjoy tech, use it and do whatever you want to do and I'll support you, since then she now handles all our extended family IT support matters!
...I work in an Engineering environment and it's pretty much the same. The women get letched at, have had wolf whistles, get patronised and if you go by the rumours,are either lesbians or have slept with at least 10 different guys in the first week.
The amount of times I've had to call people out us just staggering.
It has been the same in my experience. In the UK, I worked at a big consultancy and, back then, it was about 30% women and many of them in more senior positions, there was never any talk, wolf-whistling or anything the like. On the projects & teams they were treated equally. I had one contractor who looked down on women, his contract wasn't renewed after 3 months, when I looked for his replacement, I included the senior female programmer in the decision process.
In Germany, the females have always had an equal standing (if not equal pay, if the statistics are true, but nobody ever talks about salaries here, so I don't know for sure one way or the other, although most were senior to me, so I assume they were earning more) and were never treated with anything other than respect, even behind their backs, or if there were attempts, they were quickly reprimanded and received written warnings from HR.
"To my knowledge": ("My subordinates know what not to tell me.").
"I understand that we previously — as in the past": I've not seen any definition or synonym of "previously" which means, "non-past". Does he believe that sometimes words mean their opposites?
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"Open to all WiCyS members, the nine-month program " Seriously...........................
wtf: "women and other under-represented groups" Everyone in IT is weird. Under-represented groups IS what IT is made of. Problem is (also) that these diversity groups only look skin deep/appearances.
As another poster said - If you want more diverse genders - encourage all children with opportunities for careers, (in place of gender manipulation.)
It pisses me off that 2022 woman if the year is a man. There is only one thing men haven't taken from women yet, and I'm sure some idiot is out there trying to make men carrie babies. Then we will all be Moclan (The Orvil)
"Problem is (also) that these diversity groups only look skin deep/appearances." - right
"Everyone in IT is weird. Under-represented groups IS what IT is made of." - right
"It pisses me off that 2022 woman if the year is a man." - riiiiiight
Thank you for an excellent example of why the IT industry has so very, very far to go.
As the comments on "techie wiped a server," show, IT is a thankless task. The only kind of underrepresentation you're going to experience is lack of budget and expected to work overtime for free. Besides most male kids are into things while most female kids are into relationships. It's a law of nature that no amount of social engineering will change.
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