Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs

Lucas123 writes "An alarming number of women are currently abandoning IT jobs that require workers to be on-call at all hours, according to a story in Computerworld. One study cited in the article states that by 2012, 40% of women now working in IT will leave for careers with more flexible hours. 'I think women in that regard are at a real disadvantage,' said Dot Brunette, network and storage manager at Meijer Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer and a 30-year IT veteran. She noted that companies can fail to attract female workers, or see them leave key IT jobs, because they fail to provide day care at work, or work-at-home options for someone who leaves to have a child.'"

Dot Brunette?

[GuyMannDude]

'I think women in that regard are at a real disadvantage,' said Dot Brunette, network and storage manager at Meijer Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer and a 30-year IT veteran.

What a stupid name. Too bad she didn't get married to Jeff Matrix instead.

GMD

It's the cellphones again!

[alienmole]

So the problem is that women in IT are on call at all hours, which means that cellphones have a lot to do with this. But it goes deeper than that: cellphones are also causing honeybees to disappear [ttp]. Notice a pattern here?

These women are obviously going wherever the honeybees went: obviously, a peaceful cellphone-free land, populated with women and bees, a land of milk and honey, one might say.

Perhaps it's the men...

[tinrobot]

...in IT jobs who've never seen a woman naked outside of an LCD screen.

In other news...

[matthewcraig]

In other news, scientists finally prove women smarter than men. Film at eleven.

Re:Perhaps it's the men...

[Datamonstar]

There are CRT's out here still, ya know.

There are women in IT jobs?

[Anonymous Coward]

Im not being funny, i genuinely find it surprising to find out that there are women in IT. I spent 5 years in the business without encountering a single one.

Sorry guys ...

[Chris Daniel]

This was my fault. I'll take more showers.

Re:Dot Brunette?

[Plutonite]

by GuyMannDude (574364)
What a stupid name. Too bad she didn't get married to Jeff Matrix instead.
GMD

This post has been a announcement from the irony-hurts department.

Re:Women Belong In The Kitchen

[buswolley]

Well.. One thing is now certain about Geek IT culture... There goes the Geeks only chance of meeting a woman..

Re:24 hour?

[El Mariachi 94]

Wow. She sounds like the female nerd version of Jack Bauer. Imagine if she loved her job so much, she did answer the phone in the middle of sex. And left too! Pinnacle nerdness!