Reply #144: Sorry ...

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What you are saying does not match industry statistics even in liberal MA/NH. If you troll about the internet, you will find authoritative sources to back my argument. I believe the figures right now for women's employment in the industry overall are running about 20%. Break it down by function and you will see that the overwelming majority of them are Business Analysts, QA, Test DBA (of smaller systems) and some development. Where they are in the development is GUI programmer, and Database (SQL) programmer. They are not architects. They do not manage the larger, mission critical systems where the money is. They manage the smaller, less critical systems or training projects. Women's salaries in the field average 30% less than men's, except in contracting where they do approach equality.

I am generally the only woman at my level in the room. I am the only female architect/project lead/project manager. It's me and the guys. I do not see any women given the lead assignments.

Go to the IEEE or the O'Reilly industry conferences and you will see very few women... Oh yeah, that's right. The major companies dont send women to those conferences.

Houston, we have a problem...We cant "Play Nice anymore". We have been doing that and it doesn't work