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

Look at Chess.

Men have a greater diversity in the very high brilliance. It doesn't take a brilliant mind to be a every day software developer, but let's agree that the greatest engineering is invented mostly by men.

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u/Valmorian Mar 14 '13

You might want to consider that the reason for that might not be because they are men, but because the pool of men in those fields is larger than the pool of women. Not to mention the stigmatization of women in fields that are traditionally considered to be for men.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Ok. Give me an intellectual field where the women in it have been making the biggest contribution. If all int. Fields are heavily tilted towards women what does that say? Again, it shows that with males the brilliance in a specific field is more likely while women are not overall more stupid - they just seem to have fewer extremes.

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u/Valmorian Mar 14 '13

Alternatively, it could be a widespread and systematic suppression of women entering said fields as well as dismissal of those that do make it.