MATROX's software team

[Barbarella]

There is no woman ?!!!

I think this is really bad. Matrox a man society ?

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What do you think ?

[Barbarella]

Sorry,

there is one !

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One woman for 40 men, hmm .... I think Matrox can do much better

[jtracy]

It's either a woman or a short man with a really gay haircut.

[Thundrchez]

It is the same kind of situation at my office, which is about 30 people. A bunch of guy geeks and no girl geeks. Two times now we have had a girl geek coop. The last time that we had a full time girl geek was in 94.

[gobrob]

Sorry,I don't think Matrox 'can do much better' unless they get women applying for the job.I work in a male dominant environment(baggage handler) and we have 1 female working to about 100 men.The thing is usually of about 3000-5000 applicants when we hire, maybe 5 or 6 are female.
gobrob

[Beezer]

I think it depends on the location as well as the industry. Here in Silicon Valley (California) in the Disk Drive Head industry, it's pretty close to even (still not quite). Out of 11 engineers that work for me, 5 are women and are paid handsomely -- my highest paid employee is a women ($95,000/yr).

[Barbarella]

well guys you're right but ...

You're right. I'm remember my university. 80% of the girls want to become Teacher !

There is a big trouble, especially in technology.

I'm ask me. A lot of women doesn't want to integrated high-tech industry. But what's about the others ?

Yes there are women in the high-tech industry , but not enough. Perheaps, should we care there is more women that can integrade industry then we think.

Mixed teams are more balanced and often more efficent. Doesn't need to be 50/50 but 10/90 can make a big difference against 1/40.

[PrancingPussy]

I think it's typical in places that mostly deal with hardware and electronics. Here at work we design RT acquisition hardware and software that goes with it. We have one girl -- the secretary.

Now contrast this with my previous jobs which were pure software houses : the distribution was almost even amongst developers and the scale actually tipped to the girls' favour when you took Tech Support and Documentation into account.

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[billko]

I think that the home environment has everything to do with it. Parents let the boys break clocks, work on cars, and build things with power tools. Girls get to play with Barbie dolls and home cooking toys (argh!). It's tough even if girls are brought up in a family that encourages individualism and supports whatever it is the child wants to do because in school, the stereotypes are reinforced by "conventional" children. "Non-conformists" are dealt with... well, you know how - everyone's been through school.

Actually, I think women would do better than guys at just about everything that doesn't require brute strength, because women tend to multi-task like Windows NT, while men tend to multi-task like Windows 3.1.

Bill