Jodi Biddle

I'm not suggesting this is the case for the majority of women in IT. As I said, I'm fairly geeky - but until that was established, nobody knew what to do with me. I'm trying to suggest that maybe women (and men for that matter) who aren't geeky feel excluded by the way that IT and geekdom are so tightly wound up together, so they don't want to get into IT at all, or get into it and then end up leaving.

I'm glad you recognise that this isn't meant to be an attack. Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely a feminist, and in the course of researching this piece I found a lot of stuff to be upset about. But getting people fired isn't exactly going to promote healthy discussion.