[ubuntu-uk] Age and gender

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

In message of 28 Aug, "Sean Miller" <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, London School of Puppetry
> <lspinfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male, then
> > there will be fewer opportunities given to women.  But I know several women
> 
> Interestingly, at Cornhill Insurance (later Allianz) when I was there
> most of the IT management were female.  It was the technicians and the
> programmers who tended to be primarily male.

Perhaps not qite so polarised, but a similar picture at the Liverpool
Computer Centre of United Biscuits some ten to twenty years ago.

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