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https://www.iwitts.org/blog/2010/03/19/reaching-the-tipping-point-for-women-in-technology/ Helping Educators Close the Gender Gap for Women and Girls in Technology Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.24 https://www.iwitts.org/blog/2010/03/19/reaching-the-tipping-point-for-women-in-technology/#comment-3120 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:53:07 +0000 http://www.iwitts.org/blog/?p=403#comment-3120 The problem I see in the dearth of women in technology is that technology has grown as a male-only ecosystem. It is a male endeavor and dominated by all things male (or masculine) – the rewards systems, work organization, communications, social intercourse, etc, all masculine oriented. It ain’t the math, it’s the men (or boys)! This list can be written very long. The whole of, or bounded areas within, technology must be feminized for it to appeal, let alone be tolerable, for most females. The fairly ten percent or so of females we have seen in technology is a naturally occurring cross-over population, in the same way that a small percent of males have crossed into secretarial, nursing, elementary education, etc. I have some strong feminine personality traits – empathy, emotional intelligence, leadership based on exclusion rather than exclusion, for example – and I find that technology, in general with pockets to the contrary, a wasteland of linear, too often pointless human effort, where the goals are myopic: do better than yesterday, get attention today, and ignore tomorrow except to plan to do more of the same. Technology, as it is today, is a contact sport with a whole lot of men pumping intellectual iron for bigger mental muscles for the control of other males and dominance over nature (the feminine!). Until that changes, women will go elsewhere. And they should, lest they become like the men. But, then again, if they CAN change the ecosystem….

]]> https://www.iwitts.org/blog/2010/03/19/reaching-the-tipping-point-for-women-in-technology/#comment-2950 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:19:17 +0000 http://www.iwitts.org/blog/?p=403#comment-2950 I believe sharing the excitement of Technology Education to young girls helps them decide that becoming an engineer, technician, space traveler, scientist or mechanic is a very realistic goal to reach. Pass on the love….it works!

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