>From a Asia female point of view, it is a very little bit difference but
not discrimination. For the networking world, men are easy to accept men
can do the job and they will not realize women could able to do it as good
as men. But most of the networkers are open-minded, once the technical
conversation start, they can distinguish if you are capable to do it or
not. I think female engineer only has to be a bit patient more. Bottom
line is no matter which gender you are, if you know nothing or not
aggressive to power up your knowledge, then you definitly will phrase out
by this fast growing industry.
I have worked in UUNET for 2 1/3 year. All my bosses are very appreciate
my job. Nowadays, when they hire new people, they always ask me to get
involve in the interview process.
Yes, you will feel lonely if you all the way think about how many men and
how many women work in this field. I seldom think in this way. I am
seeking a good quality of conference/training and not quantity of each
sex. Who care? I think we all care how well will MPLS runs , what is
coming next to MPLS, what after OC192c.
If your mother tougue is English, you are even much better than me to
understand the content of the training/conference. So, don't give up. We
all want to see more diversity in this field.
Ida
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Kevin S. Mahler wrote:
> 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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