Women in Technology

A 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?

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3 Responses to “Women in Technology”

  1. Dominic Hodgson Says: 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

  2. Peter Cooper Says: 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 :)

  3. Mickey Zelansky Says: September 16th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    :-)

    very funny situation.

    she just doesn’t know yet..

    Geek is the new cool!!