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July 22, 2005
Pakistan's Girl Wonder
Mia at Popgadget reports on a 'Microsoft engineer supergirl':
10-year old Arfa Karim Randhawa, who last year became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, was treated to a VIP tour of the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, and a meetup with Bill Gates. What did she say to the tech imperialist and world's richest human? She criticized the unbalanced ratio of men and women on the campus.
"It should be balanced -- an equal amount of men and an equal amount of women."
Apparently Arfa plans to go to Harvard University or MIT, and then either go to work for Microsoft, in its developer division, or become a satellite engineer. Meeting Gates was second only to Disneyland on her list of things she wanted to see in the United States.
Posted by Foe at 11:08 AM in People | Permalink
Comments
Awesome.
As someone said on one of the other tech blogs (Slashdot? BoingBoing? Gizmodo? I can't find it): "Get that girl a linux box!"
Posted by: gzombie at Jul 22, 2005 2:31:02 PM
Heh, good point.
Posted by: Foe at Jul 22, 2005 4:59:55 PM
Patience. She'll be a rebellious teenager in a few years... ;)
Posted by: EI at Jul 22, 2005 10:41:27 PM
very nice
report
i will try that my nephew (13 years old)
start to acquire this ceritification
Posted by: loveegypt at Jul 23, 2005 5:00:12 PM
god i hope microsoft doesn't get her. a waste of talent.
Posted by: lockheed371 at Jul 31, 2005 3:40:23 AM
Naive...equality is not a virtue attainable by a free society, nor is it sustainable by any edict of man...Nonetheless an impressive resume for one her age.
Posted by: chuggets at Aug 10, 2005 12:12:18 AM
hope she,ll raise her country,s name in the world
Posted by: Fahad at Aug 15, 2005 3:58:01 PM
why no commenting on "women leaving tech jobs in droves"?
hmm....
Posted by: mike at Sep 18, 2005 1:48:26 AM
