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Thanks Ayrroyn - may have to think about the 150 words I need to use....

 

Because I want to be a woman in IT?

 

Ah, yes, well they've got to say that, haven't they?
But in reality, making you say 'I'd like to do this course' in 150 words means that only women will be able to apply. A man could never go on about it that much.

 

Ouch!

Where have you been anyway?
You've been quiet for a while.

 

I think women already have massive amounts of help compared to the white British men.

Its just that women do not want to work in IT.

 

Women are less likely to lose their jobs during a recession.
Women get more help with finding jobs.
Positive discrimination is used a lot for example political parties are actually encouraged to select women over men.

Even at college we had 1 girl in our class but she did not know jack **** about IT after studying it for a year she did not even know what RAM was. Yet she was given the student of year award in IT.

I could be here for a long time but i wont.

Okay since it looks like my post is not backed by any evidence and just sounds like a crazy rage against women i will just point you in the direction of some articles.

"And among workers who have never been married and never had children, women earn 117% of what men do. (This factors in education, hours worked and age.)"

http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/12/women-wage-gap-cx_wf_0512earningmore.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html?_r=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Discrimination_(Election_Candidates)_Act_2002

"The Equality Minister defended plans to encourage firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minorities job candidates.

The new Equalities Bill is also expected to force employers to disclose salary structures in a bid to make the pay gap between men and women more transparent.

Responding to criticism that the plans could discriminate against white men, Ms Harman said "you don't get progress if there isn't a bit of a push forward". "

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...nds-positive-discrimination-plans-854475.html

When a man and a woman are more or less equal women get paid more.

 

He does that quite a lot I'm afraid.
He's a man of few words, and most of them are, er, cryptic...

 

or bollox...

anywho, thanks for the info Arro, and welcome back!

 

Yes and yes! Starting to see discrimination against men with younger women being a target of good things by higher up people and more attention.

 

I don't know if news organisations as good as the independent can genuinely be called "bollox".

 

And the indie article states that women are paid less and always have been, the attempt is to try and gain that parity.

Second you are working in an IT field which is mostly men, so having a promition to highlight women in IT is no bad thing.

Now stop derailing what was useful and positive thread and take the dicussion to a thread of your own.

 

Looks intriguing, thanks!