I have a bit of trouble with the whole Ada Lovelace concept as well, and I’m with Andrew when I think no girl should EVER get a job if she’s not the best candidate for the job.

BUT I think it’s a great thing to encourage women to go into tech, and for that reason, recognizing the few ladies we have in there already is good. The reason that the experts in these fields are mostly men is because the experts are usually the top 1%…. and if women don’t have a big part of that pie in the first place, there’s no way there’ll be that many in the top rungs. That’s just basic math.

Same as you, all my early experiences with tech have been sausage fests (my computer classes in high schools rarely had more than 2 or 3 girls in them, and even my company right now is all male except for me), but I don’t think encouraging women to have heros, even if they’re not so great as the male ones, should be something to be uncomfortable about.

I personally want to get involved in mentoring young ladies in tech, because, as you say, it’s intimidating walking into that room of men, if you’re not confident (read: flirty, I’m sure) ladies like us…and until we make it really a lot less scary, it’s not going to level out.

Good post!

In fact, it hints that some of the “females in tech” have no real place there and are just complaining that they aren’t getting recognition “because they are a woman”, where in actual fact, they are not being recognised because they are strong enough technically.

I truly believe that if somebody is highly competent in their field, they will get recognised and rewarded regardless of their sex.

Girl power. C’est drole parce que j’porte justement tous mes macarons de féministe aujourd’hui, Non c’est non, Mettons fin à la violence faite aux femmes, Pro-choix et Toujours rebelle.

Ton post m’a fait penser à ma toune de ce printemps c’est Rise Up (j’sais qu’est vieille, mais est inspirante aussi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjHSu4wNTyw) le vidéo est coooool au boute!

Pis yo. J’viens de me commencer un twitter… mais mautadine que j’sais pas comment ça marche! ni à quoi ça sert (parce que j,ai pas de blogue ou de site web actif)