Ask HN: Is Cyber Security a particularly masculine position

1 points by toomuchredbull 5 years ago | 2 comments

My Government in Canada in proposing to make Sept 1st "women in cyber Day" and "remove barriers for women" in that sector, but my first reaction is that this won't be that successful because the job itself lends itself to strong, combative, people that aren't afraid to be the least liked person in an organization. Is my impression wrong? Is it reasonable to expect that they can increase women in cyber security from < 10% to 50%?

randombits0 5 years ago |

I know strong women in security. I cringe when I see “awards” for women in IT. It’s like they are saying “congrats for your success even though your a woman!”

I’ll go one more. Pride month. Who you care to love is meaningless within the context of our professional relationship. I don’t care. Isn’t that the goal?

toomuchredbull 5 years ago | |

Ya I mean, clearly there are women in cyber security but I mean, I'm non-confrontational and I know that wouldn't be a good fit for me. Unless I knew the woman was up to it I certainly wouldn't recommend most of my female acquaintances to go into just for, say, the money. It must suck being the one to delay a deployment because of risks, or being a road block all the time.