Friday, October 1, 2010

Women out-earn men in tech jobs

By Donald Sensing

Okay, this is pretty cool. Business Insider makes it easy as pie to blog their content. You can embed the whole article. At the bottom of the article are the usual suspects for sharing online, Facebook, Twitter, etc. But there is an "embed" button, too. Copy and paste the code and this is what you get:



I think this feature is simply splendiferous. The B.I. piece also included this related video.



The subject of the piece is of interest to my household right now because my daughter has started to narrow her college search. She's one of the relatively few young ladies who is powerfully attracted to science, engineering and math disciplines. We've already toured Georgia Tech and will tour Vanderbilt tomorrow. While Vandy is not an engineering school, it is a major research academy and has an excellent engineering department. For students who want to focus on engineering management, it's a first-class choice.

BTW, Vandy is one of the relatively few universities that "pluses-up" ROTC scholarships. If you get an ROTC scholarship to Vanderbilt, covering tuition, fees and books, Vandy tops it with $6,000 per academic year to pay for room and board. So an ROTC scholarship there is basically a 100 percent deal. Wake Forest does this, too.