Amen. If you listen carefully, the people telling women that they cannot succeed in IT are exclusively women, often those who are failing at some level and attribute ALL of their failures to their gender, when in fact it could be that but it could also be a dozen other factors. Men fail all the time, but we usually don’t look between our legs for the reason. The women who do succeed in IT are the ones who ignore the whining and just DO IT the same as the guys. Soooo many erroneous preconceptions floating around about what it takes to make it, when the model is really pretty obvious: it’s a meritocracy. It is your ability: your brain, as well as your can-do and make-it-happen attitude, not your reproductive organs, that we care about.
Ladies, if you want in, go for it, be prepared to bust your ass, and ignore the losers. The bullshit about men having it easy makes me wanna vomit. It is NEVER easy.