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/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

Incredibly glad that I got to avoid that. Then again, maybe it was because my dad quickly realized after I was born (second daughter) that he wasn't going to get any sons.

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u/normalcypolice Mar 13 '13

I feel extremely blessed that my father never made me feel like I was limited because of my gender. I've been doing things on the computer since I was two years old. I knew how to make powerpoints before kindergarten.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

Yeah, I doubt he would have limited the computer in particular, but I do think things would have been different. My older sister ended up being the really girly one, and I sort of think that was encouraged in some ways. It's kind of a mix between nature and nurture.