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izardI've just returned from SPS/Drives 2013, the factory machinery fair.
There are not many women in our field, I would like the percentage of women in IT to be bigger. Even more so in factory machinery industry. So you may guess there were very few women within exhibitors and visitors. However, as at the most fairs, there were many women in the booths.
I decided that this time I will only make pictures of machinery. I realized that I should not support a practice of attracting visitors to the booth by hiring girls who dress in mini-skirts, etc.
When I approach a lady on the booth with a technical conversation, she always tells me that she will call an engineer. So it would be easier just to ask if I could speak with an engineer, except that it might happen that _she_ is an engineer. That would have been very embarrassing. You may argue that I should be able to tell an engineer from a girl hired to decorate a booth, but it is not always so. For example when I was watching this
beer brewing imitation I was approached by a young lady who I thought was there for a show, but in fact she was an engineer!
There are not many women in our field, I would like the percentage of women in IT to be bigger. Even more so in factory machinery industry. So you may guess there were very few women within exhibitors and visitors. However, as at the most fairs, there were many women in the booths.
I decided that this time I will only make pictures of machinery. I realized that I should not support a practice of attracting visitors to the booth by hiring girls who dress in mini-skirts, etc.
When I approach a lady on the booth with a technical conversation, she always tells me that she will call an engineer. So it would be easier just to ask if I could speak with an engineer, except that it might happen that _she_ is an engineer. That would have been very embarrassing. You may argue that I should be able to tell an engineer from a girl hired to decorate a booth, but it is not always so. For example when I was watching this
beer brewing imitation I was approached by a young lady who I thought was there for a show, but in fact she was an engineer!
