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Khushal · #1 Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Women in Information Technology

Man is born in the garb of a child, passes through the pinnacle of his youths and at last fades away into the darkness of his grave", whoever said was wise enough to mention Man neglecting the service done for humanity by Man, although Women have played an equal role somehow in the service to mankind but Information Technology is one field where women are far behind. I am not by any means being Male biased but these are the facts what history has for us. Coming back to IT, specifically our country, in Pakistan though woman is as good as from any other developed country but there role in the enhancement of IT is minimum, where in the developed countries a woman is head of the Information Technology department our woman is limited to being assistant or secretary to the head of IT department, where women in Europe write computer applications to provide an ease in work, our women are the users of those very applications, where girls abroad have a keen interest in the Information Technology our woman is limited to the Medical profession only. The reason is not that our women are not equally educated but the fact is the culture, the environment and the society our women are brought up in, since most parents want to see there daughter either as a Doctor or a Lawyer or anything but not a Techy Girl. Though the scope of IT and Technological studies is way beyond anyone's imagination but why this likeness for the afro mentioned professions only? It is because either the parents are not technologically literate or they fear the future seeing other IT students having wasted there time studying IT. Most women who studied IT see there studies go wasted because none of them could come up with an innovation in IT, no one planned to practically put there skills, they are either looking for a job or switch to other fields but none of them ever planned to form an organization of there own, be a female IT Entrepreneur, none of them. The truth is when you study IT, you just get to the know-how of IT, the practical learning comes when you plan to continue to this field and be well informed about the latest developments and innovations and using them can you only go on with your own skills and "Be the Change".

Did you ever thought why would a woman always need assistance to install a mere Windows to a computer, set up an electronic device, or use the enhanced features of a cell phone? Someone said Women are Technologically ill, I disagree, the reason behind this is that they are not much interested in technology, the portion of thinking and brain that they could utilize in finding solution to the above problems, they have it reserved for Studies weather learning by heart the codes of a computer program without thinking how could they use the program practically in there daily life.

Some of you will not believe but there are women who were the backbone to the algorithm on which Google the best search engine runs, there are women who are full time web designers and developers and paid highly for there services, women with programming skills who write complex applications and programs for web which we use, women who are responsible for the entire animations and motioning of the TV commercials for the top brands like Coca Cola, women with although not much skills but good knowledge write articles for the best IT magazines and the future developments are the aftermath of their suggestions in those articles and not to forget but some women are the CEOs of the most respectable IT Companies. Where these are some good facts for women the bitter fact is not one amongst them is an example we can see from our country.

Its just about the time we should have a change, our country is badly in need of strong brains that women here are wasting and that could be utilized to revolutionize the IT industry in Pakistan as well as leading to a safe future, where the future is IT there is always a need of a balance contribution from Women as well, only than can Pakistan appear on the world map as an IT giant.
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Written for my university's Journal by Yours Truly Khushal Khan!
Via Women in Information Technology

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