Let me throw out some experience from the product development and
related side of things.
My immediate boss is female. I split responsibilities for guiding
Nortel's interaction with the IETF routing area and the operational
forums such as NANOG with a woman.
In one cooperative research program, it's pretty evenly split. And
yes, before I met one colleague in working on the theory of Internet
convergence, it wasn't especially relevant what gender she was, just
how we talked about protocol theory. Now that I've met her, we still
talk exactly the same way about protocol theory, except that I'm now
aware that, other than not having the mole, she is a clone of Cindy
Crawford. In other words, I was first aware of her as a professional
peer, still work with her that way, but also take male notice of her
physically -- and do nothing about that but appreciate in a way that
has no impact on our work. I am also aware of some male colleagues
who are disgustingly good looking--that doesn't affect our
relationships either.
Among software developers at Nortel, things are pretty mixed--I
certainly know women at the VP level, and they are first respected as
engineers and managers. Cisco was founded by a married couple.
I have four coauthors on the BGP convergence documents I'm working on
in the IETF. Three are female, one of whom is co-chair of the BGP
standards committee.
I've had both female and male peer reviewers of my books. I've only
had female editors, one of whom I loathed, but gender was irrelevant.
Priscilla and I have worked together for years. If she refers to me
as MCP, I assume she means Master Control Program. The only problem
with working with Annlee and Leigh Anne is that their names
occasionally get confused.
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