I would agree that we engineers often treat the field of marketing with some suspicion. That's probably because--despite it having plenty of legitimate practiti

I would agree that we engineers often treat the field of marketing with some suspicion. That's probably because--despite it having plenty of legitimate practitioners--it's also the natural home of countless snake oil salesmen. However, I have not yet encountered the stereotype that marketing is where women in tech end up, that marketing is full of women, or that women in marketing are inferior to men in marketing. I have met quite a few engineers and tech-industry marketers, and in my experience at least, the programmers are a more gender-balanced group than the marketers. The marketers in tech that I've met have been mostly male. And all the snake-oil salespeople I've met so far have been male. Maybe this isn't true globally; I'm just relating my anecdotal experience. This is not to discount the author's perceptions. I take it she has encountered this sort of attitude before. If so, then she has every right to take issue with it. And the tech world does have gender issues--whether we're talking subjectively about culture or objectively about numbers of male and female programmers. But I'm merely reporting that, in my little corner of the tech world, I haven't observed this stereotype.