http://www.techsploitation.com/2009/10/16/talking-about-geeks-and-gender-and-sex/ Technology - Science - Pop Culture - Sex Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.techsploitation.com/2009/10/16/talking-about-geeks-and-gender-and-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-168238 regis Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:19:54 +0000 http://www.techsploitation.com/?p=209#comment-168238 the women who stay vs women who leave reminds me of some of the discussion around women in the trades. back when i was an electrician, in the 1980's, it was staggeringly male-dominated. i was a merit shop electrician, but something the (iirc) first woman to go thru the whole program in the local IBEW union local said really resonated for me -- there's pioneers, who manage to go there and be first, and there's settlers, who go there and stay. the women who stay vs women who leave reminds me of some of the discussion around women in the trades. back when i was an electrician, in the 1980′s, it was staggeringly male-dominated. i was a merit shop electrician, but something the (iirc) first woman to go thru the whole program in the local IBEW union local said really resonated for me — there’s pioneers, who manage to go there and be first, and there’s settlers, who go there and stay.

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