Editor’s Comment: The article below is from the Kernel Magazine – one that I read on my daily tech reads thanks to the day job, I thought to share this with you our dear readers. Do you agree that there should be no preferential treatment given to women in the tech sector?After all is 2012…

“Women in tech.” Can you think of a more boring subject? Maybe men in tech. And why is that? Because no one cares! Or at least, for crying out loud, no one should.

I’m new to the tech scene and I’ve been bowled over by the attention lavished on women. I’m struggling to work out why. According to the gushing praise “women in tech” seem to get on a weekly basis, should we be concerned about the lack of females in the industry?

Whenever a woman founds a start-up or lands a high-paying job in the technology industry, apparently there is a need to celebrate. Facebook has female engineers! Quick, alert the media! A woman wants to start her own tech company? Good grief, this is major news.

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