Nothing to do with Work culture
Mark Pesce you are utterly deluded.
You can't (for example) just simply decry a lack of ethnic Scandinavians in the Senegalese restaurant industry as sign of discrimination - there is an underlying reason for it that has nothing to do with prejudice.
There are very few women in IT (particularly the hard-core types of IT - engineering, low level programming type stuff), because very few women have any qualifications or portfolios that will put them above the piles of men who might apply for the same job.
Here is a simple test -- go online and just *Look* at the open/sample/uploaded code that people are making in their bedrooms. Nobody is paying them to do it, and none of them are required to seek permission to do it. Yet it is nearly all guys.
We can't just drag girls in off the street and force them to be in the 'IT industry'
A disclaimer -- My sister is a qualified programmer who is continually offered work and opportunities and makes decent money, because she is good.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
