Comments on: Inspirational Women In Business

By: epa dave

epa dave — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:15:24 +0000

Lyndon , you only have to watch Lord Sugars “the apprentice” to realise why more women dont make it !!!!!!! LOL

By: Sarah Mitchell

Sarah Mitchell — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:48:09 +0000

Thanks for the great post, Lyndon. I don’t understand where the junk about “women not suited to technology” is coming from. I’ve been in the software industry since 1981 and haven’t seen a whiff of that attitude in the field. I suspect it’s a media assumption. Unfortunately, it has trickled down to girls who no longer consider IT an interesting career.

(Of course the whole industry is struggling to get youth interested. We’ve crossed over from “crazy cool industry” to part of the infrastructure. I guess we can say it sucks to grow up.)

One last thing, you forgot to mention Grace Hopper who was on the team that invented COBOL. She was a terrific pioneering IT chic.

By: Lyndon Antcliff

Lyndon Antcliff — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:59:14 +0000

Your right I didn’t, instead I put a picture of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace in the post instead and mentioned her parentage and her title. I thought it more interesting not to mention her name.

By: Mal

Mal — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:53:23 +0000

At the risk of being seen as ‘Lyndo-baiting’ (which I’m not), I’m surprised you didn’t name Ada Lovelace as the person who wrote Babbage’s first algo. That said, top marks for reminding us that women still often don’t get the opportunities they merit. It’s getting better and more into balance, but it’s not done yet.