Re: Women Sys Admins

[Michael Rogero Brown <brownmic@plhp002.comm.mot.com>]

> 
> 
> I am also interested in the raw numbers /stats on
> Women as System Admins....  I wonder about the validity
> of the results of our surveys which is a small sample or all 
> Sys-Admins.  Unfortunately, the federal government statistics don't
> keep track of the profession of Systems Admininstation seperately from
> the IT profession as a whole.   Is anyone aware of other IT surveys that
> we might use to compare to our own?  We might get a better idea about
> wether the SAGE membership has a representative sampling of the total
> number of women in the profession.
> 

The only good sysadmin surveys that I am aware of are the ones done by Sage
and SANS.  Most "IT" surveys out there don't seem to do a good job of breaking
out "sysadmins" from positions other support personnel like help desk, pc
techs and the like.

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