Mr. Sean O' Sullivan:

As I have a seven year-old daughter, I second Mr. Cunningham's comments. There is an expression, "Women hold up half the sky". Unfortunately, when it comes to programming positions, there may be one out of ten who is actually in the field. Supposedly 25% of women are working in technical areas, but this includes medicine and other fields which are not the software and high tech areas. We would really like to see greater participation by women. It is noticeable in some design areas in which several women are heading up companies, but we would like to see more. Women are not carrying half the burden in technology jobs, which is not because they are not good at it. The challenge for society is to encourage more women to work in an area which can develop their creativity.