I caught quite a lot of heat when I organized a women and/in technologies panel at LIFT06 to raise questions about the fact that women seem to be fleeing the decision/building side of technology, while at the same time they now account for more than 50% of the online population. I still think it was a pertinent discussion to start even if the form could be debated.

Tim O’Reilly is also wondering what is wrong with women and computer science, and it looks like things have not moved forward much.

The roots of the problem seem to be somewhere deep in our educational system, so the patches will need a couple of decades to have some effect. Patience?

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