Women in Tech

Abby Sciuto on NCIS portrayed by Pauley Perrette

I was reading a rather pointed piece on cnet regarding women in my industry. It surrounded ideas like too few, less pay, less say, gender disparity and so forth and so on.

All I could gather from this is the obvious disparity in that definition of "tech" as it relates to where you are and what you're doing.

Silicon valley may indeed have all the gender disparity it can dish out. I, however, work in an incorporated municipality and the distribution of XX to XY workforce is I dare say more XX ...

In the end it may be that we have a national problem but it simply is not evident where I work. Indeed, there is no gender bias nor racial bias and about the only thing that will get you fired remains a demonstrated and consistent lack of technical competence.

Our primary focus is management of a city. Information technology is a single aspect of that. We work to support the employees. We require office automation as a support function of our daily operations. That's where we come in.

I suppose the 'silicon vallley' reference is to those large scale enterprises concerned only with producing technology as consumables.

I produce IT product for the workplace but it's specific to our needs and not for general consumption. The public often interacts with my work but the staff utilizes it's output in their work and they are the reason it exists.

Though diversity is quite prevalent I don't really view it as a gauge of success because if you have a competent staff therein lay all you need to see you through.

The piece must be speaking primarily of averages and that realm within the real world technology consisting of the googles, the microsofts, and their ilk. The places with overpaid boards of directors, and other bastions of so-called "preferred gigs". I'd just as soon stay where I am, thank you very much.

No toxic frat boy culture in my workaday world. The preponderance of workers are indeed female as far as I can tell. The only discrimination is against those who cannot do the job. I view discriminating against the incompetent dragging the workplace down as proper ... regardless of your gender.