Re: Who are we?

[Steve Evanina <Steve -dot- Evanina -at- SCIATL -dot- COM>]

     My experience is from the hardware side of the fence. I have seen very
     few women documenting hardware and I'm not sure why. We have had a few
     women writers here, but they never lasted. One female coop left in
     confusion before her assignment was complete. In fairness to her, she
     was not given an easy task; "part out" a huge system that was not
     documented (engineering documentation) correctly. Note that our
     systems consist of electrical, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic, and
     computer (several) systems. Here, women engineers are in the minority.
     We have some, and the ones that are here are extremely good and easy
     to work with. Engineering (EE/ME) seems to be a male dominated
     profession.

     In my past experiences (mostly documenting hardware) all tech writers
     that I knew were male. I was in the business (TW) almost 10 years
     before I met a female writer and then it was when I was documenting
     software.

     Are most STC members software writers? If so a large segment of the TW
     industry is not represented. This would skew the statistics to
     indicate that more women are tech writers than are men.

     steve -dot- evanina -at- sciatl -dot- com

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