At the age of 9, she is the youngest Microsoft certified expert!

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Sitting down for a personal meeting with Bill Gates this week, 10-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa asked the Microsoft founder why the company doesn't hire people her age.

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all i can say is that puts me to shame!

:)

and also she was probably bill gates great grandad in her past life
it runs in the family!
 
All i can say is good luck to the Girl....


Not sure i agree with her take on more women working at microsoft, jobs should be given on merit not on sexual preference.....
There will always be a male orientated society in technology because men just love and embrace technology, Where'as most women Couldn't care less and don't really take an interest...only if it helped them to pick the colour of their latest new outfit...:p
 
If she passed at 9 she must have been about 7 when she started learning! Incredible - I wish it was possible to learn that fast once you are older!
 
crazylegs said:
There will always be a male orientated society in technology because men just love and embrace technology, Where'as most women Couldn't care less and don't really take an interest...only if it helped them to pick the colour of their latest new outfit...:p
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That's quite a sweeping statement, young man :rolleyes:

Good luck to Arfa, may she prove all the many male chauvinists in this world wrong.

;)
 
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crazylegs,

Having Bex on this forum does not inspire enough confidence in you that women can embrace technology? After all this forum is all about technology, is it not? :D
 
Sorry Bex but you and a couple of others are the exception to the rule.....Is it not fact there are more men who frequent this forum than women.....


I am not a male Chauvinist and i am only stating a fact....As an example I don't know many women who could tell me the difference between a Plasma screen an LCD screen and a CRT screen, be it a monitor or a television set...Or how an Inkjet Printer gets text onto a page... How a fridge keeps everything inside it cold.... How a lightbulb works...etc etc

Most women are not interested in the inner workings of these things, but men have a natural Inquisitiviness about how things work....

I do apologise if i have upset anyone on the forums....
 
Its often true generalisation that blokes tend towards science/IT/engineering, and vise versa for other things - I've got a friend that is a PhD research student and the subject is "women in IT" and why the proportion is so different. Some statistics from their research site here :

http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk/gris/winit/Statistics.html

I bet Arfa gets asked to fix everyone's PC now! Thats one thing I'd have changed when I was younger - I wouldn't tell anyone I could fix them with hindsight ;)
 
crazylegs said:
Sorry Bex but you and a couple of others are the exception to the rule.....Is it not fact there are more men who frequent this forum than women.....
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You made your comment with humour, as did I ;)

No offence taken :)
 
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