¶ … women in the software development industry have to work harder as compared to men to achieve success. It has one source. Laura Martin's (2002) article "Software Development Opens Doors for Women" advocates the software development industry as "absolutely loaded" with wonderful opportunities for women. She supports her arguments through interviews of twelve successful women working in the software development and related industries. However, where there are success stories, there are also conditions of limited opportunities for women in the industry as compared to men. In other words the door to opportunity does not open for women; it has to be pushed open by women as those that Martin interviewed in her article.

Objective Summary

Martin begins her article by identifying the changing roles of women in the information technology domain. She suggests that women have an increasingly larger role in the technological industry compared to the past when men were the driving force behind the industry. However, the road to women's participation in the technology world has not been smooth every step taken...

Martin [2002] shows how each woman software developer interviewed put in hard work, ambition, dedication, training, and often sacrificed her personal life to achieve the success in her professional life. The author ends with a summary of all the right career moves women need to make such as hard work, getting good grades and getting valuable experience in the field, in order to attain success in the software industry.
Analysis

The article not only advocates the idealistic title of the article, but also identifies the characteristics of women that have led them to success in the software industry. The women interviewed by the author speak of success often at a cost of their personal lives. Furthermore the author also provides grounds for arguments that successes in the industry comes with much bias attitudes and discriminations and only if women can put aside their personal and emotional problems can they move forward in the industry. This fact is shown by the small number of women who have made it to the managerial level. Yet,…