In this morning's print edition of the Wall Street there was a summary of the eighth D: All Things Digital conference which on-line links to June 1. What I found interesting were the photos of key participants WSJ chose to interview: Steve Jobs (Apple), James Cameron (movies), Julius Genachowski (government, FCC [watch out for this guy!]), Mark Zuckerberg (FaceBook), Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie (Microsoft) and Alan Mulally (Ford). And oh yes, one woman, Vivian Schiller (government, NPR). Hmmm. After decades of summer math programs, pushing computers on little girls, Title 9, and the feminist movement, the best they can do is a woman from NPR when touting advances and the future of technology? Sometimes 8 pictures tell a lot. If women ever had a level playing field, it's technology. It was the perfect storm of non-gendered skill sets and government boosts and set asides. And girls still couldn't compete with the nerds, geeks and ADD boys.
Come on ladies. Maybe you need to take a few risks, act up in class, invest your own money, drop out of college, relocate for better jobs, stop griping about the glass ceiling and the good ole boys network, and start your own business.
All Things Digital: Excerpts From the Conference - WSJ.com
NPR's Vivian Schiller on Why Internet Won't Kill Radio - WSJ.com
Monday, June 07, 2010
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