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Female IT professionals cope in a male-dominated industry

A look at women's working lives in the IT industry. The reporter interviews a number of attendees at the September 2003 Executive Women's Forum in Florida. As usual, there's a mixture of good and bad: there's one woman who hands out business cards in Japan that list her title as "engineering secretary" instead of her usual "chief technology officer and executive vice president". On the other hand, many women talked about helpful mentors in college and family-friendly workplaces. Still, a salary and hiring gap persists...

--> "Female IT professionals cope in a male-dominated industry", Ellen Messmer Network World, September 29, 2003, www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0929women.html