Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!psuvax1!idis!cisunx!tjw@uunet.UU.NET From: psuvax1!idis!cisunx!tjw@uunet.UU.NET (Terry J Wood) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Women Wizards? Message-ID: <11845@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 8 Jul 88 21:44:08 GMT References: <11734@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 27 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu When I worked for Digital Equipment Corp, in Software Services, I found that the most of the "Software Wizards" were women. At one point there were also more female managers, project leaders and Corporate account managers than male. I also remember one customer who was "suprised" to find that his "salesman", software services manager, and DEC project leader were all female. (At this customer site, when my software services manager came to meet the customer the first time, his secretary tried to give my manager a typing test -- what else could Jeneane have been there for -- we laughed about THAT one for a while). Actually, in Software Services, if you were a white male, you were in the minority. From the postings I've been reading here, I assume that this is not the case in the rest of the world. If you're looking for a company to work for where all that seems to matter is how hard you work (not your race, sex or how many degrees you have (if any)) I'd recommend DEC SWS in Pittsburgh. Terry -- (UUCP) {decwrl!allegra,bellcore,cadre,psuvax1}!pitt!cisunx!cisvms!tjw (BITNET) TJW@PITTVMS (Internet) tjw%vms.cis.pittsburgh.edu@vb.cc.cmu.edu (CC-Net) CISVMS::TJW