Re: Demographics was Re: Usenix board

[Lee Ann Goldstein <leeann@rand.org>]

We have an SA staff of 11 including our supervisor. Two of us are
female. Two of the men work with us only half time, and do other
stuff the rest of the time. The two half timers and two of the other
men are junior SAs. I am technical lead & 2nd in command. The other
woman is our Exchange expert; we have one other NT admin on the SA
staff (others are in other groups). Three of us are somewhere between
SAGE levels III and IV, and three between II and III. I and one other
SA are SAGE members.

--Your message was: (from Benjy Feen)
> Consider this a total digression:
> 
> What do we know about the demographics of:
> Usenix
> SAGE
> Sysadmins as a group?
> 
> I'm not trying to make a point -- I'm just honestly curious.  In one shop
> I worked in, the M/F ratio was 30:1 among Unix sysadmins and I was the
> youngest by about 10 years. The stats are much more balanced in my current
> office, and I have to say it makes a huge difference;  the Old-Boy Network
> in that last job rivaled that of the Freemasons.  But I want to know --
> what are the raw numbers out there?

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Lee Ann Goldstein, Computer Services
RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
leeann@rand.org