“Stupid” Male Geeks Suppressing Capable Female Engineers Says The Inventor Of WWW, Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sep 25, 2007

“Stupid” Male Geeks Suppressing Capable Female Engineers Says The Inventor Of WWW, Sir Tim Berners-Lee

The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the “stupid” male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession.

Berners-Lee said that a culture that avoided alienating women would attract more female programmers, which could lead to greater harmony of systems design. “If there were more women involved we could move towards interoperability. We have to change at every level,” he said.

According to Berners-Lee, a culture exists where women can be put off a career in technology both by “stupid” behaviour by some male “geeks”, and by the reactions of other women.

“It’s a complex problem — we find bias against women by women. There are bits of male geek culture and engineer culture that are stupid. They should realize that they could be alienating people who are smarter and better engineers,” said Berners-Lee.

But as far as my experiences of giving interviews in different IT companies (in India) is concerned, they prefer females! That is the big reason why me and my friends keep shouting at our female friends and joke about the idea of getting sex changes for those guys who haven’t got a job yet Thank God I am placed!