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Give men credit for seeing past outdated stereotypes. Booth bimbos aren't representative of IS women.
When it comes to women, I discriminate. My colleague Laura DiDio recently wrote about "booth bimbos," those near-naked models who work the vendor displays at Comdex in Las Vegas.
They can't tell computer chips from poker chips, but they earn up to $8oo per day - plus tips from men who are, one assumes, more interested in sex than software.
Several female IS professionals DiDio interviewed were angered by this shameless spectacle, and understandably so. I'd be pretty embarrassed to see a bunch of male models doing even a partial "Monty" at a trade show.
ON THE WANE
A reader posted a reply to the story at Computerworld's World Wide Web site (www.computerworld.com), deploring the booth bimbo practice. She suggested we vote it out by not buying...