For years now, the IT industry has been dominated by men--women deterred by the geeky image of an anti-social, geeky teenager who hasn't seen daylight in weeks, working in the basement of his mum's house, programming away to some complicated code. On the flip side, you have the perspective of a woman in the IT industry somewhere, where they're sat behind a desk filing away, writing reports and performing general secretarial duties, whilst flirting with the other employees as she stirs their coffee, whilst imitating something sexually deviant with her tongue.

Both are wrong, because both are misconceptions and mistaken stereotypes. Although there may be elements of both some might actually like, it does pose the million dollar question. <A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=244&tag=nl.e539">Why aren't there enough women in the IT workplace?</A>