RE: Redbook List (was: How we introduce our profession to others .. .)

["Dia Blankenship" <dia -at- teknolutionary -dot- com>]

> Redbook (for anybody who doesn't know) is a women's magazine
> (competing with
> the likes of Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping), and there is a
> theory that women who are technically inclined tend to gravitate towards
> tech writing because of the social issues that tend to discourage
> them from
> entering most scientific fields.  It goes back to that whole stereotype
> about males doing better in math/science and women doing better
> in language.

And fighting that stereotype is why I ended up being a hard-core developer
for seven years...  When I finally realized that I'd rather be beaten with a
2x4 than stare at another 10k lines of code searching for a comma that
should've been a semi-colon...  (which kept the ** -at- ^&*# program from
compiling, of course.)  That's when I decided that just because I *could* do
it didn't mean I *had* to.  ;-)

-DB


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