Comments on: Making Nice or Making News? http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=41 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dorothea http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=41&cpage=1#comment-165 Dorothea Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:54:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=41#comment-165 Yet we will make little further progress IMO until the time crunch is as likely to be a man's as a woman's. Yet we will make little further progress IMO until the time crunch is as likely to be a man’s as a woman’s.

]]> By: Christie http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=41&cpage=1#comment-164 Christie Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:58:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=41#comment-164 Thanks for expressing the concerns that this old Boomer has had for....well, decades! I have no answer for why as a group, our sex does not dive into science, math and technology like our friends in the other gender. But let me tell you, it's better than it was! Just one example: when I started covering State Librarian's meetings for my boss in the early 90's, the majority at the table were men. I puzzled as to why a female dominated profession would be led by males. Today, attending these meetings as a state librarian, I see more female faces around the table. <br/>As women, many of us consider both family and work as our top priority. So if a mom/librarian, for example, has a spare moment, she will probably not spend it gaming!<br/>My optimistic hope is that it is time and not inclination that is keeping women from the upper stratosphere of technology. <br/><br/>(By the way, my unscientific observation is that the majority of library blogs are written by women..as they should be!). Thanks for expressing the concerns that this old Boomer has had for….well, decades! I have no answer for why as a group, our sex does not dive into science, math and technology like our friends in the other gender. But let me tell you, it’s better than it was! Just one example: when I started covering State Librarian’s meetings for my boss in the early 90’s, the majority at the table were men. I puzzled as to why a female dominated profession would be led by males. Today, attending these meetings as a state librarian, I see more female faces around the table.
As women, many of us consider both family and work as our top priority. So if a mom/librarian, for example, has a spare moment, she will probably not spend it gaming!
My optimistic hope is that it is time and not inclination that is keeping women from the upper stratosphere of technology.

(By the way, my unscientific observation is that the majority of library blogs are written by women..as they should be!).

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