> I’m one. We’re not ex­act­ly com­mon on the ground; my pro­fes­sion, ap­par­ent­ly not con­tent with hav­ing ex­clud­ed a whole gen­der, is most­ly do­ing wit

> I’m one. We’re not ex­act­ly com­mon on the ground; my pro­fes­sion, ap­par­ent­ly not con­tent with hav­ing ex­clud­ed a whole gen­der, is most­ly do­ing with­out the ser­vices of a cou­ple of gen­er­a­tions. The bulk of the problem is that the software field has been growing exponentially for a long time. If you double in size in 2 years, and the bulk of the new guys are actually new to the workforce (as seems to be the norm), then instead of a nice even distribution of ages, you'll end up with nearly half of your workforce less than 2 years out of school. This isn't really a solvable problem, short of waiting for the size of the software industry to level out, and then waiting for the younguns to grow up. I'm not saying that there's no discrimination -- I have no data -- but it's likely to be less rampant than this makes out.