Duchess, Ladies in Java
Abstract
Female programmers are rare. Female Java programmers are even more rare. As female Java programmers ourselves, our interest in this issue led us to start Duchess, an organization to support and promote women in the Java industry and hopefully to encourage more to join. Our approach to the shortage of women Java programmers includes making the problem and arguments for involving women in IT visible. Why is it good to have more women in the industry?
We'll start with a short description of Duchess and follow it up with a presentation about why we think there are so few women in IT and why there should be more.
Speakers
- Clara Ko - http://www.javapulse.net
Clara works as a freelance consultant on Java enterprise applications as architect and developer. She has eleven years experience in IT working in sectors such as banking, utilities, content management, web applications, and embedded software. Her work includes setting up development frameworks and processes that leads to better productivity.
- Linda van der Pal
Linda is a programmer at Lunaris Informatica bv, a very small software company. She has been a Java programmer for about five years now, working mostly in the financial market.
