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Subject:Re: A Preponderance of Females From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG> Date:Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:53:43 -0700
I think we're confusing two issues:
* The difference between salaries of men and women in technical
communication jobs.
* The difference between salaries of technical communicators and
those of other technical professionals -- like engineers and
programmers.
I think it's the second that the original poster was alluding to in
suggesting that this difference has increased as the proportion of technical
communicators who are men has decreased.
I don't have any idea whether or not this is true, but I know that skilled
technical communicators here in the SF Bay Area/Silicon Valley -- both men
and women -- can do very well. ...RM
Richard Mateosian Freelance Technical Writer
srm -at- c2 -dot- org Copyright 1996 Review Editor, IEEE Micro http://www.c2.org/~srm/ All rights reserved President, Berkeley STC
