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Datacenters still a boys' club, staffing shortages may change that

M.V. Lipvig Silver badge
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HEAR HEAR! MAKE those women take those jobs! Line them up at gunpoint! You'll either be a data center technician or worm food! Here's a book on Linux, memorize and understand it by next week or else! You've got the pager this week young lady, and if you miss a callout it's off to prison for you!

If women wanted these jobs, they'd be getting these jobs. My industry is the same kind of sausagefest, all meat and practically no buns. The company I work for now prides themselves on inclusiveness and even with that sort of preference, it's still almost an all male revue. The few ladies we do have do a great job, some of them even better than me and I've been doing it decades. It's not like they're incapable of doing the work when it's all keyboard surfing. Women in general just don't like doing that sort of work. The only real problem here is in trying to force them to take these jobs they very clearly don't want.

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