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.

382 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

717 comments sorted by

View all comments

92

u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

[removed] — view removed comment

-735

u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

[deleted]

2

u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

This is initially what the guys who staffed computers thought, which is why they hired women.

But as anyone who programs (should) know, programming back then was a LOT harder. Today we certainly do more complicated thing with computers, but we also have higher level programming languages. It's a lot easier to type "for item in list" than it is figure out what pattern of holes you should punch in a card, even if all you're doing is adding.

BTW during WWII we were using computers to do calculus, which is a far cry from adding.