Being Women’s month I thought it only right that I do
something. A couple of months ago I wrote an article about my first experience
with a computer that sparked my interest and love of technology. I talked about
how, I had felt like an outsider looking into an elite club that I wasn’t
invited to. How even after several years in the industry there were times I
would walk into a room and I would feel like that little girl again seeking to
be welcomed to this elite club. That my only way to defeat my inner demons was
to tell that little girl that I never needed their invite to do what I love I
just needed to do it.
Then a few weeks later I was talking to my niece who was
about to start college. Now my niece had used my laptop before mainly to get
movies and series so I had just assumed she knew all about it. But on this
particular day that she came to visit, she said words that stirred something in
me, by announcing that she did not in fact know how to use a laptop. After
gaining my composure from the initial shock a few seconds later it dawned on me
that, what she meant was knowing and understanding the full entirely of the
machine. I was flabbergasted at her statement and continued quizzing her, she
informed me that computer studies was only offered to students in the senior
year at school and even then it was optional. Reading through the lines I
gathered that she had wanted to take the subject but was persuaded to do
otherwise by friends and teachers as it was not deemed important.
It made me sad that even now women in her generation have to
play catch up to the men when they finally get into the employment sector. That
ten years from experiences in college the pattern was still going on. I felt
the injustice and unfairness of it all but also felt powerless I could do
anything being one has never been much for speaking up. As I am a well assured
introvert. However someone once told me that not all of us are given the same
things in life, but one thing we are given for sure is something. So I chose to
do what I could do and that is write. That is my Do something in this Women’s
month.
Happy Women’s month.💗💜
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