I think there is an over-simplication of the situation only in that IT staff and consultants are sort of lumped together. There is one aspect of being a consultant that...

JenMidnightDBA (10/6/2010)

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The quote is meant to convey how you have all kinds of people within a group: there are good men and bad, smart and dumb, fair and not. Ditto...

JenMidnightDBA (10/6/2010)

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But men and women aren't that different. Or, to quote my mother, there are more differences within a gender than between the genders. The numbers tell me...

denisemc (10/6/2010)

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It's not "social engineering" to encouraging girls to explore math and science, it's opening their eyes to a possibility and giving them a choice. If they like it, maybe...

Interesting debate this morning - "we need more women in _______". The question that needs to be asked is 'Why?' Are we just after statistics? Do we want more women...

It seems to me to be common sense in today's world. And I believe most companies have figured this out. Anyone hear of anything else happening within the last 3...

What do you mean by that? At first sight, it looked a lot like 'swinging the pendulum...

Steve,

The danger in that thinking is that it was men and women that gave women the right to vote. There were black and white folks marching to end segregation....

I like this whole 'men and women in IT' discussion. It has certainly been entertaining. There are so many stereotypes and exceptions thrown around the forum this week, you have...

This is an interesting topic. I remember being 26 and reading about guys taking a year off from work to spend time with their families. I sort of idolized these...

I think that it is not an all or nothing type of deal. I saw the premise of the article was that IT can provide something quick enough to be...

Steve,

That was my thought - the tool might be the most useful for the IT person to be able to create something the users can see quick enough to...

As a Psychology major, these kinds of things are fascinating to me. The "hot water", as someone above put it, will affect people in different ways depending on the kind...