Sisters (in Tech) Are Doing it For Themselves
I've been thinking about the subject for over a week now, ever since Kim posted Where are the Women Tech Bloggers?
An outsider looking in could be forgiven for thinking that the tech industry is dominated by aggressive, ambitious men. Certainly the search blog landscape has its fair share of loud macho stereotypes, always trying to one-up each other with jargonized posts, pointless SEO ranking competitions or bizarre territorial pissings. And there's only one woman listed amongst the A-List bloggers. Why is that?
I personally think it's because we sisters are busy doin' it for ourselves. Yep, most women in tech are far too busy actually working to be bothered with "mine is bigger than yours" comparisons, sexually suggestive blog illustrations, endless Digg backslaps and other male-dominated time-wasting. We just get on with it. Thanks to Kim for the list of sisters doin' it for themselves.
An outsider looking in could be forgiven for thinking that the tech industry is dominated by aggressive, ambitious men. Certainly the search blog landscape has its fair share of loud macho stereotypes, always trying to one-up each other with jargonized posts, pointless SEO ranking competitions or bizarre territorial pissings. And there's only one woman listed amongst the A-List bloggers. Why is that?
I personally think it's because we sisters are busy doin' it for ourselves. Yep, most women in tech are far too busy actually working to be bothered with "mine is bigger than yours" comparisons, sexually suggestive blog illustrations, endless Digg backslaps and other male-dominated time-wasting. We just get on with it. Thanks to Kim for the list of sisters doin' it for themselves.
Labels: a-list bloggers, women bloggers
1 Comments:
Kalena, What a great post and very insightful observations. I looked at my blogroll last month for women seo's and you and Natasha Robinson were the only two that I had and was aware of-so thanks for the additonal resources,You have such great information. Thanks, Steve
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