PtGC: eWeek Highlights 10 Women in Major Roles

Source. A nice montage has been posted over at eWeek, highlighting ten women who are currently in very important, high level roles within the technology industry. This is an industry near and…well, near to me, in that I worked in the field for close to 15 years before deciding to go back to school to start over. Though it’s still a place dominated primarily by male employees, what I personally saw over my years in the field is that a good, capable tech person–programmer, systems engineer, network administrator, tech support and so on–was well regarded and well paid, regardless of gender (though I’ve no doubt that female workers were still paid less on average than their male counterparts, to be sure).

In any case, it’s good to see women in these roles succeeding; like with the women in the Film and Television industry posted earlier this month, each of these makes a small but measurable, worthwhile difference in redefining the role of women in the professions, and demonstrate with clarity that gender is by no means a limiter of intelligence and competence.