[TriLUG] The biggest deterrent for women in tech

Brandon Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Wed May 1 21:57:59 EDT 2013


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:47 PM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> If you must know the tech resource team was a group of dba's and app
> developers to support issues on a very complex medical EHR software. As a
> matter of fact I would be willing to bet it is equal to complexity to open
> source 3D dev. If not more complex. And on top of that you were dealing
> with peoples medical records, something considered a bit critical with
> liability on the line. You see when you kill some one on a video game it is
> not quite the same as killing a patient from a software error.
>

I think some non-trivial differences compared to open source are:
- all of those women were getting paid, and perhaps well
- the company presumably had anti sexual harassment policies, which puts
some constraints on what men feel they can say and do


Cheers,
Brandon



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