The week in your words: Highfield hops into Windows

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 14 Nov 2008 at 17:18

The forums were baffled.

"Maybe it's becoming a [poor] job, for [poor] pay that is affecting IT professionals, and women see it earlier?" wondered cjkace

We think cjkace might be on to something. Did anybody ask Bill Gates why he left?

cheysuli didn't have much time for the report, either. "So what? There are very few men in primary-school teaching. Sometimes it's the fact of gender, sometimes the stereotype social view of a profession and sometimes it is simply that one gender or the other doesn't find that profession at all interesting."

We'll let qpw3141 round this one off: "If there was a wave of discontent from women who would like to work in IT but find there was something stopping them it would be a different matter but there isn't... I see no reason why women should be dragooned into the profession if they would prefer to get jobs as, for example, doctors or other medical professionals."

Quite right. If you've got no other discernable skills, then by all means go into IT, otherwise, run for the hills.

We'll see you all next week.