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In the Metro newspaper there was an article a couple of weeks ago regarding what kind of jobs men and women dream of and comparing that to where there is a shortage of competence in different job areas.

In the left column we read professions such as Engineer, Developer, IT-architect followed further down in the list by tester and testleader within the IT-industry. These are the jobs that companies are searching high and low for people to employ.

The list in the middle states the jobs men dream of. In second place we find Engineer, only beaten by Entrepreneur taking place as the number one dreamjob. So far, there is a good match between the needs of the industry and the desires of men to work in this area. Other jobs also on the list are for example pilot, photographer, adventurer and inventor. Quite a broad range of titles I would say.

Furthest to the right we find the sad list of the jobs women dream of. I say sad, because even though doctor, veterinarian, author and human relations manager are all respectable jobs, it is a bad omen for the IT-industry that no IT-roles what so ever made it to this list.

Once again it is painfully evident that we have a very, very long way to go to ensure that we get more women in IT. If IT-jobs are not even something women dream of, then they will of course never consider it as a career.

So the million dollar question becomes: How do we get more women in IT? Well, I have a few ideas up my sleeve, which I will share with you readers throughout the year. So stay tuned!

It was an interview with 29-year old Sara Persson who works as a game developer in souther Sweden. The journalist portraits this young lady as being the countries most unique game developer, because she’s the only female in the business (!!!).

The article leaves a lot of room for suspicion that Sara didn’t actually get the question whether she indeed is the only female game developer in Sweden, but more to how it feels to work as a woman in an industry dominated by men.

The reaction from the readers was both swift and brutal. Discussions on Facebook and Twitter flourished and both men and women took a stand against an article which disregards all women who in fact work as game developers.

It is painfully evident that the journalist didn’t make his (yes, it was a man) research for the interview even one tiniest bit. However, it makes me more sad than angry that even without the support of statistics of gender within the IT-industry, this individual didn’t even question the fact that it must have sounded odd that he found the only female game developer in a country where Gaming companies have been sprouting out of the ground in the last couple of years. Is it so natural to think that this is a tetosterone only working environment?

The editor in Chief went out with an appology after a couple of hours and the article was even removed from the online website, but the discussion is still going on in social media.

I know we don’t have that many women in the IT-industy, but could we please atleast not diminish the ones we already have? It isn’t exactly helping our struggle towards attracting more young women to choose this occupation.

(And seriously, what’s up with all the fluffy animals in the picture!? How is that supposed to convey a sense of respect and competence?)

Last year the Eurovision final was held in Germany, and the TV-show was led by two women and one man. They were doing a pretty decent job for the most part, until they did something that almost made me fall of my chair.

In one scene, the lady in red was holding her microphone upside down looking sheepishly into the camera. The man, the expert, the know-it-all of course came to her rescue, showing her how to really hold the microphone and uttered the words “well, you know women and technology don’t go well together” (!!!) The two women giggled a bit and nodded in embarrassment.

Seriously???!! The people (I’ll bet $100 on it being guys) who wrote that script should be fired on the spot and their bosses need to get their heads screwed on straight! It made me and my friends so furious that evening that it ruined the entire fun with the competition.

I truly hope that this years Eurovision Song Contest, being broadcast from Azerbadzjan won’t entail any such idiotic nonsense.

His favorite game is Angry Birds, although he hasn’t quite yet figured out how to shoot the birds in the right direction. Also Dragon Vale has become a big hit with him being in a general Dinosaur-phase at the moment.

As I always take a lot of pictures and film the kids with my iPhone he also enjoys watching these, swiping the thing like a pro. Here I have a big problem as it happens from time to time that Vincent is quick as lighting and manages to delete a picture or a film before I have time to react and cancel the action.

I am therefore desperately looking for an iPhone keylock that prevents files from being deleted while the kids are playing. My search has proven futile so far so if any of you readers have any tips I will gladly receive them!