May 21, 2008
 representation of female thinking |
I spent a 2 hour lunch today as a guest of an organisation who’s raison d’etre is the promotion of IT as a career for the fairer sex.I was one of only 3 males in a group of 150!
Yeah, you guessed it, I had a great time! Aside from the interesting networking opportunities, great food and location, we were addressed by: |
an award-winning IT journalist, an entrepreneur, a telecom executive, a Microsoft executive and a politician….all female.
This was not a heavy and passionate geek speak session. The focus was on life balance, using the “off switch”, and working from home. I have to say that these ladies seem to have it all together, and unlike their male counterparts, they actually talk about other stuff. Hmmmm ……think I could learn something here!
A couple of quotes from various sources …..
“The problem is that employers don’t know what they want either!” (In reply to my suggestion that schools were failing to provide for 21st century employment.)
“Us adults just need to let go; we have to get out of the way of the younger generation, and let them move forwards in their way. We need to stop telling them to do it our way.”
And after reading a long wish-list including such things as instant broadband, everywhere; on call help desk techies who always fixed everything …etc, etc, the lady journalist ended with her wish list which was simply a bottle of french bubbly and George Clooney!
They do come from another planet …………..btw, click on the pic above to see the original in detail
