Women in Technology
April 29th, 2009A conversation between me and my (14 year old) daughter:
Me: Are any of your friends “into” computers? You know, writing stuff, making websites, coding?
Daughter: I think [girl's name] is. She does layouts and codes for web stuff.
Me: Really? Interesting. But just her then?
Daughter: Yeah.
Me: So why aren’t more of your friends into that sort of thing?
Daughter: I dunno. Just not that bothered I guess.
Me: What about the boys you know? Are any of them into computers?
Daughter: No, not really. Just [girl's name]. Why are you asking?
Me: Well this guy did a presentation at a conference with some saucy images on the slides. And now a load of people are up in arms saying “it’s this sort of thing that makes women not get involved with technology”.
Daughter: Oh no, it’s nothing like that. It’s just not very interesting is it?
April 29th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Next time ask how many have changed the background on there myspace page, that at least gets them into some css basiscs
April 29th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Daughter: Oh no, it’s nothing like that. It’s just not very interesting is it?
Haha, yes! This is what Laura says. I don’t think she gets why women work with it at all because she thinks sitting down typing all day is about as fun as watching paint dry. Then again, I expect many men think the same :)
September 16th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
:-)
very funny situation.
she just doesn’t know yet..
Geek is the new cool!!