I flagged this as a high priority message because I think it's important for
people to know there ARE female CCIEs out there. In fact, a company in San
Diego (MC Info) built there own lab for two of their engineers to get
certified. One was male and the other was female. The female passed her
written and her lab on the first try (and the male took the lab more than
once). Just the other day I had lunch my one of my Sprint Pre-Sales/Design
engineers and he said he was bringing one of his new engineers with him for
me to meet. Sure enough, she was female and knew her WAN technologies
extremely well. The company I work for requires me to interact with many
other businesses as well, and I have encountered female network
administrators here and there. Now, cranking it down a notch to a more
junior level, the Help Desk/Senior Tech area where I work has many females
in that department. Typically, I think of CompUSA-like employees when I
think of PC Techs (you know, geeks!). But believe me when I tell you, these
girls are not some ugly pimple faced geeks, they are very professional, well
dressed, attractive, professioanl women who do their job well. I was very
impressed when I first started with this company. I think women are
becoming more and more distributed among the Systems/Network area each year,
and that is good. Also, the Director of our e-business department is
female, and making as much as a CCIE would make ($108k).
Regards,
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Larkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ms. Maria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:52 AM
Subject: RE: Cisco for Woman?
> Carry on studying. I have been in the industry for a while now, and have
yet
> to see a lady engineer. I would actually like to see more of then.
Provided
> the knowledge is there, gender means nothing...
>
> Good LUCK!!!
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin S. Mahler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 June 2000 13:40
> To: Ms. Maria; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Cisco for Woman?
>
>
> I have not seen any sex discrimination. In fact I think it's just the
> opposite. Many are very happy to see some diversity in the field.
>
> We have two female Systems Engineers in my office at Cisco.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> At 10:45 AM 6/9/00 +0100, Ben Lovegrove wrote:
> >Maria,
> >
> >Don't be discouraged by the ratio of men to women in networking. I'm
> >sure most men would agree that work would be much more enjoyable if
> >there were more women working alongside them. I was talking to a
> >couple of CCIEs the other day and they said that there were many more
> >women at the recent Networkers conference than in previous years. Some
> >of these women were CCIEs. If they can make it, so can you.
> >
> >Stay focused, keep a sense of humour, but don't let anyone treat you
> >any less than an equal.
> >
> >Good luck
> >
> >Ben
> >--- "Ms. Maria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello my friends,
> > >
> > > I have been looking for a job in Cisco field. I have earned CCNA,
> > > already
> > > have MCSE, and doing my CCNP now. While going for interviews, I
> > > sometime
> > > feel that this Routing and Swtiching environment is strictly man
> > > dominated.
> > > I have never seen a woman interviewing me for WAN job. Funny thing
> > > is that
> > > I am going to one institute from last couple of months and I am only
> > > one
> > > girl taking CCNP classes with 25+ men in my class. Sometimes, I sit
> > > back and
> > > think that if I have chosen a wrong profession?? Any advice from
> > > people who
> > > are already working in this field will be helpful. Is there any sex
> > > discrimination going on for these jobs?
> > > By the way, I am in USA this time.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the consideration!
> > >
> > > Maria
> > >
> > >
> > >
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