Women and Technology
December 9th 2005 Posted at General, Science and Technology
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I run a small software company and we are in the process of hiring our first dedicated tech support/analyst person. Our company is very male oriented and one of our priorities is to make it more diverse. Unfortunately, there are very few (2 to be exact) women applicants.
I have been asking around to friends of mine about it and one person said that if I hired a woman, she had better be very well qualified. She was not being sexist; she was saying that if this woman is not up-to-snuff, she will have a horrible time working in this environment.
So this is what I am struggling with. How do I find qualified woman technology wonks? Any thoughts, world?
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Slarty: I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but the women I know in this industry tend to work for large, stable entities, (Guidant, U of MN) and the men tend to work for smaller, dynamic companies, including starting their own. So maybe that’s the gender dichotomy you are running into, rather than an outright lack of qualified women technology wonks. Good luck.
Very interesting point, I will have to mull over that for a bit.
As it turns out, we found a very qualified woman. She was by far the best candidate. She is a bit more of a business analyst than a techie type, so the work we will get out of her will be slightly different.