{"id":876,"date":"2007-03-27T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/58116b09186715dce98311b5aa346652"},"modified":"2007-03-27T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:10:03","slug":"women-have-much-to-offer-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Women have much to offer in IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert posted an interesting commentary on Women in IT yesterday (<b ><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/RobertLMitchell\/~3\/104561616\/5248\">Where have all the women gone?<\/a><\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>I'm proud to say that I'm married to someone comparatively high up in the IT in her organization (there are only two people above Sharon). <\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of IT, I see women very rarely (I'd say they make up less than 10% in our organization, and of those less than half are in technical roles). On the one hand I think this is sad - as a rule I find women easier to deal and negotiate with - but I'm also aware that many women are simply intimidated by the thught of working in what is largely a mans word.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=ED6J7a\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=ED6J7a\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/104736051\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert posted an interesting commentary on Women in IT yesterday (<b ><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/RobertLMitchell\/~3\/104561616\/5248\">Where have all the women gone?<\/a><\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud to say that I&#8217;m married to someone comparatively high up in the IT in her organization (there are only two people above Sharon). <\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of IT, I see women very rarely (I&#8217;d say they make up less than 10% in our organization, and of those less than half are in technical roles). On the one hand I think this is sad &#8211; as a rule I find women easier to deal and negotiate with &#8211; but I&#8217;m also aware that many women are simply intimidated by the thught of working in what is largely a mans word.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=ED6J7a\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=ED6J7a\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/104736051\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}