-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 20.02.05 um 16:11 Uhr schrieb Patricia Jung:
My experience -- not only at university, but also in work life, and also as someone who has taught courses -- is that the majority of men has been socialized to show off. So it does not necessarily mean that they _know_how to program (or what motherboard 123-XYZ is), but they will not tellthat they in fact have little experience and just throw this motherboardnumber into the discussion to _look_ like someone who knows. Its about impressing people, and it takes a women a lot of time to simply see through this behaviour and even more effort to flatly ignore it.
That is exactly one of the problems: women tend to understate while men behave different. And that is not only with computer science but in all technical things.
Here one typical example: When I was on my first cisco training years ago, most of the men (I was the only woman) claimed to know already about routers (some were admins). But what did they really know? There was a firewall rule problem to solve. The result was said to have at least 6 rules. Me and one of my colleagues found that there would have to be 10 rules to solve the problem, but it could not be solved completely. All the others found the six or less, but only I and one of the men really never had logged into a router before.
Another thing is asking questions: I have made the best experiences with men, who ask. Those not asking do not know everything, but they pretend to do and are the first ones to get a job, while the others most times would be the better choice for a job.
greetings Jutta- -- http://www.witch.westfalen.de
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