NewsBustersorg – By Ken Shepherd
Financial Times photo of Kate Craig-Wood by Daniel Jones | NewsBusters.orgThe May 14 edition of the Financial Times carries a “Digital Business” special report. The section deals with challenges facing the future of computer dorkdom corporate IT departments. Chief among them, the FT asked in its front-page story, “What is it about girls and IT?”
“They are heavy users of technology yet avoid studying IT,” the subhead explained, noting that “female skills” in IT are “in great demand.” Oddly enough, the editors at FT may have found one solution: transsexual IT staffers.