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From the Beeb's news website, Recruiting the new IT girls and Women spurning tech jobs .

Schools are coming up with new ways of interesting girls in computing, but apparently retaining women in the profession is as much an issue as attracting them in the first place.

(Question: are women really spurning tech jobs, or are the tech jobs spurning them? There's been an awful lot of layoffs.)

Posted by katherine on January 23, 2003 1:55 PM |

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It's sad to say but discrimination also plays a part. I have left the tech world because of the double standard. If a male tech worker leaves to take a child to the doctor he is praised for being a conscientious father, but a woman is not dedicated and a slacker.

Posted by: Shelly | January 24, 2003 1:28 PM

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