Soap Opera for Luring Women to Tech is a Flop

Billosaur writes "The Register has an article by Mark Ballard on attempts to lure more women into the area of technology by a '...TV soap that depicts them making a success of careers traditionally pursued by men.' The Public Awareness of Science and Engineering (PAWS) Drama Fund has been attempting to develop a soap opera called 'Happy Valley' to encourage girls to pursue careers in science and technology by giving them successful role models to follow. The idea is tanking, however, as no one is willing to pick up the show. To quote the show's writer, Tony McHale: 'People say, why don't you do a science soap. My reply is that no-one will commission it, because it's boring.'"

"Sex in the Data Center"

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

They just needed a catchier title

Barbie

[IAAP]

Have the tech woman living a life like Barbie. Add in a deal with Matel for an "Engineer Barbie" that comes with her own laptop and you'll have a hit.

XPICTOC IN VELOCIPEDEM

[Hognoxious]

To quote the show's writer, Tony McHale: 'People say, why don't you do a science soap. My reply is that no-one will commission it, because it's boring.'

Coming up later: water - is it wet or what? Film at 10.

"Domestic Engineers"

[IAAP]

They're called "Domestic Engineers" you insensitve clod!

Geeze!

Another catchy title....

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

"The Guiding Byte"

PAWS

[SuperKendall]

Here's a hint for the producers - you should probably not tie any media targeted at women with "dogs" of any sort at the metaphorical level.

It is OK to have dogs in the shows themselves as long as they are either very tiny Doglings, or very large Doggoliths.

Let's look at this...

[ValentineMSmith]

Enrique (turning away from Jill): I saw you last night... In the server room.

Jill (face flushing): But I couldn't resist.. It was one of the new quad Opteron machines!

Enrique: So, you're saying you're only staying with me for the servers???

Jill: Please, Enrique. Can you forgive me? (general tears break out)

Tune in next week when Jill finds a new use for the neon tubes in Gary's gaming machine.

Nope.. Somehow, I think that this is just one of those things from which nothing good can come.

Headline confused me

[Doc Ido]

I read the headline as "SOAP Opera for Luring Women" and was trying to figure out what the heck some programmer was doing with XML messaging and an Internet browser to stalk women.

Re:Everyone knows....

[VJ42]

Nah, Women can work in tech, look: http://img504.imageshack.us/full.php?image=femalei texp8rc.jpg [imageshack.us]


*note to mods this is a joke, I actually know a couple of female software engineers, they're beter at it than me. :-)

Hah!

[Cranky Weasel]

Of course, some of us suffer from a terminal case of integrity and are unable to pull off such behavior.

I LOVE IT! "Yeah, mom, I'm never getting married because I have way too much integrity for today's woman." I'll try that one.

Re:Hatred of Men and Women

[DJCF]

there are too many political interests that absolutely hate that because it leads to a stable family system

Yep. That's what every problem in the world comes down too: the liberal's hatred of the stable family system.

I am not responsible for any failure to observe sarcasm in the above post.

Re:How about making tech attractive to EVERYBODY?

[PitaBred]

Hey kids! Science doesn't mean beingthis [simpsonsweb.com], it can mean being this [biografiasyvidas.com], this [uaf.edu] or even this [ucsb.edu]!

Must...resist...

[Vorondil28]

...white goo jokes...

Re:Crossing Jordon

[falzer]

> Doesn't seem that complicated to me.

Yeah, but you're a rocket scientist.