A while ago the law changed in the UK to allow women to do the official book signing bit at weddings. Nowadays, if you go to a wedding, it is almost certain tha

A while ago the law changed in the UK to allow women to do the official book signing bit at weddings. Nowadays, if you go to a wedding, it is almost certain that the person in the role of registrar/vicar is female. For whatever reason a once exclusive male shop is now dominated by women. If we look back at the time before the internet, in the days when Wordperfect was king, you could find that the typical office had more computers in the hands of women than men. In those days plenty of women went from secretarial jobs to more technical roles in computing. IT was far from what you might call a closed shop, women barred from entering. Far from it. The internet, or rather the www, has created plenty of new opportunities in programming, design and content creation. Everyone had a fair crack of the whip, no universities barred women from doing Comp. Sci. degrees and many, many employers would prefer to take on a female candidate for a programming role to a male candidate given key criteria of skills are met. Yet here we are in our gender stereo-typed roles. The die has been cast.