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Women in my Workplace

Although it's not the topic of this post specifically, my workplace is currently all male. This is not by design. There have been occasions when we've attempted to hire competent people and they also happened to be female. The dearth of women in the software and web development industry is a sad fact that I believe is common worldwide.

Every so often the topic once again crosses my radar. This time, it comes in via an article unearthed by Chris Shiflett written by female developer, Nicole Sullivan. The article, "Women in Technology", has been quoted by many on Twitter with the phrase "Why is computer science a sausage fest?" The article itself was spawned by a comment made on twitter about Google's recent funding of a grant to allow female developers to attend JSConf on Google's dime.

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