Jennifer Ritzinger - Women of PDC

Posted By: scobleizer | Sep 9th, 2005 @ 5:33 PM | 33,865 Views | 12 Comments
Irreverent. Strong. Fun.

Does that describe the women you work with?

It describes Dee Dee Walsh, Jennifer Ritzinger, and Mardella Brekke.

Meet some of the women behind Microsoft, what makes them successful, and hear more about the Women and Technology panel that'll happen on September 13 at the PDC.
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#Sep 10th, 2005 @ 7:57 PM
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The few women in IT areas I have worked with (in the Healthcare Insurance industry) have been very competent...although I have seen some "control freak" tendencies in some of them which is a little funny sometimes.  Although there are very few who are really deeply into "development" on a low level.

I agree with the "competitive" issues...I see this a lot.  I also see other things that come out of this including jealousy, people being shut out of discussions, left out of meetings...not fun.

Hey, is that the first use of a swear word on Channel 9 video? LOL.

#Sep 10th, 2005 @ 8:02 PM
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scobleizer wrote:
As to the coldness of the box. That's what I've been told when I discuss this with girls between 10 and 14. They see playing with the computer as an anti-social activity.


I used to think this way, however, when I saw one of my kids completely absorbed in playing a farming game on her Nintendo system (Harvest Moon)...I was floored.  She would go on the internet and dig, dig, dig for information related to playing the game. It really connected with her, as did some of the later Mario Brothers titles.

Regarding development of software, though, she almost got interested in building web pages.  She tried building a couple, but then gave up.
#Sep 15th, 2005 @ 4:29 PM
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This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it
I believe I said "kick [booty]" on one of my videos Smiley
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