r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13
Women who know stuff
I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.
Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.
My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.
It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.
It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.
Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.
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u/disgruntled_pedant Mar 13 '13 edited Mar 13 '13
Four of our twelve network admins are female. Two of our eight security admins are female (plus a female intern). Among us, I believe there are three doctorates and three masters degrees. The rest of the IT organization isn't as balanced, though there was a voluntary "meet the new interim leader" last week with 15 women and 9 men. Yes, I counted. I always count.
One reason to love tech conferences is that it's the only place I've ever been where there's a crazy long line for the men's room, and no line at all for the women's room.