[TriLUG] The biggest deterrent for women in tech

[John Vaughters]

What does a history book have to do with my life experience? Nothing!

I will resort back to my experience on Indian women with 40% ratio in a tech resource team. Some of the top technical resources were female. They dressed in traditional Indian garb. They were allowed to be women in the traditional sense by Indian standards, so I reject the idea female oppression is the reason for the differences in our thinking, and I respect the idea that the differences are embraced as a strength as it appeared to me in this setting.

The only question I have is this not occurring in America at similar rates.

Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:33 PM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> I am not going to accept Cherokee or Amazon outliers as proof that these
>> differences do not exist.
>>
>
>Well of course not, because white Christian men stomped all those cultures
>into the dirt and then wrote the history books, defining all the
>non-Christian societies as "outliers."  Or to put it another way, one's
>"same sex marriage partner" definitely exists amongst the Aborigines in
>Australia.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Brandon
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