Hello, I'm... Carmelyne

I'm a web developer with strong information architecture skills & ability to design simple & engaging user interfaces.

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Women in Tech... Whoa

September 13, 2007 by carmelyne

Its an O'reilly Series: Women In Technology

I am another female in tech here. I've only read one essay so far and it was by Amy Hoy: "I Don't Like Articles about Women in Technology" . Then as soon as I read the comments, I started feeling iffy. Why does everyone argue negatively? The people who made comments argued negatively with the author. I can understand then why Amy didn't like Articles about Women in Tech. A few months ago (maybe weeks), I brought up an idea about writing an article that had a positive connotation -- about being a happy successful female developer but I've lost the interest to write it when I heard some negativity.

It forced me to have a different outlook now more than ever. I celebrate for the Women in Tech. I care that women who strive do succeed. I care that you care about other women in Tech. I care that you try and pave for other women who wants to take on a tech career. That's pretty much my stand. Who needs that negativity? As Naruto would put it: "I like my positive chakra". I don't dwell any more on the negative side of being one of the few females in a male dominated environment/career. I'm just being more vocal about enjoying my life and career in technology. It's fun!

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Archived Comments

Shelly : Negatively would be me calling Amy names. I was critical of what she had to say. There is a difference.

Posted: September 13th, 2007 at 11:50 PM

Carmelyne : Shelley, I mean no disrespect. I am just not so severe with my own kind/sex. We all have our own ways.

Posted: September 14th, 2007 at 11:46 AM

Hendy Irawan : Yeah... I wish there are more women... :-)
In my country, I don't see much difference in the number of male and female doctors...
And graphic designers...
Or singers...
(probably there are more female singers, but who knows)
I'm not an expert in this matter so I'll just observe what's going on... If I can help I should help :)

Posted: September 19th, 2007 at 06:06 AM

Amy : I'm with you, Carmelyne. I love what I do and I had hoped that with my article, I could convince some negative folks to stop looking for excuses and just get out there and DO it, whatever "it" is. Some people have written me privately and expressed that I reached them in that way, so I'm hopeful.
I had actually expected that the response would be much more negative than it was. I was expecting a fight!
But the response has been (almost) entirely positive. Weird. :)

Posted: October 16th, 2007 at 08:19 AM