Re: Who are we?

[Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM>]

I started off doc'ing mechanical, electrical,
and pneumatic systems for steel mills -- not
many women. The subject material was fascinating
to me. I left because the job opportunities
were more plentiful in software. I remember being
very aggravated with STC at the time because STC
seemed to only address writers in the computer
industry. Now that I am one, I find their stuff
very useful. <smile>
--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
alexiap -at- sems -dot- com

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>From:  Steve Evanina[SMTP:Steve -dot- Evanina -at- SCIATL -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Wednesday, May 21, 1997 2:09 PM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       Re: Who are we?
>
>     My experience is from the hardware side of the fence. I have seen very
>     few women documenting hardware and I'm not sure why. We have had a few
>     women writers here, but they never lasted. One female coop left in
>     confusion before her assignment was complete. In fairness to her, she
>     was not given an easy task; "part out" a huge system that was not
>     documented (engineering documentation) correctly. Note that our
>     systems consist of electrical, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic, and
>     computer (several) systems. Here, women engineers are in the minority.
>     We have some, and the ones that are here are extremely good and easy
>     to work with. Engineering (EE/ME) seems to be a male dominated
>     profession.
>
>     In my past experiences (mostly documenting hardware) all tech writers
>     that I knew were male. I was in the business (TW) almost 10 years
>     before I met a female writer and then it was when I was documenting
>     software.
>
>     Are most STC members software writers? If so a large segment of the TW
>     industry is not represented. This would skew the statistics to
>     indicate that more women are tech writers than are men.
>
>     steve -dot- evanina -at- sciatl -dot- com
>
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