Women in technology; Taking on the girl geek stereotype

Over time, my confidence grew with the length of my resume. I'm not so defensive about proving myself and can occasionally risk speaking out on real issues. When the Hacker News Network published an article on Scene Whores, I asked Space Rogue, editor of HNN, to let me write a rebuttal. If I was trying to avoid the feminazi label, why write this? Mostly because if I didn't, someone else would -- possibly in a way that would make it a female versus male issue, something I preferred to avoid. The current flurry of inquiries started with an article on the ABC News Website about female hackers. Now, maybe New York is different from the rest of the world, but I see enough women in the technical field that it's become unremarkable. Oh, that's right, we're talking about female hackers; that's much sexier sounding than women in technology. "Hacker's Toolchest," [Carole Fennelly] (SunWorld, May 2000):