From Times Online, March 24, 2010: No techs please, we’re British

Priya is a member of our development team. She’s professional, skilled, great to work with, and as far as we can tell, shares our enthusiasm for our work; and her gender has no bearing on her professional life whatsoever. The fact that she’s good with people may or may not be an attribute of her gender – some say women are more sociable, although whether that’s really true or not, and if so, whether it’s genetic or just social conditioning, is not something I’m sure has been settled – but that’s irrelevant; we took the fact that she’s good with people into account when deciding who to hire out of our selection of candidates – regardless of where this attribute comes from.

The UK technology community is undeniably male-dominated, which is a shame – because people are missing out on excellent careers in technology (and it is a very rewarding field to work in) just because of their gender.