Get with the program.We're living in a computer age, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can put an age requirement on a computer programmer. Arfa Karim Arfa Karim Randhawa (Urdu: عارفہ کریم) (born 1996), a girl from the city of Faisalabad in Pakistan, who in 2005 at the age of 9 years and 8 months, became one of the youngest Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs)]] in Randhawa of Pakistan is, at 10, the youngest Microsoft certified professional See Microsoft certification. in the world. And while Arfa won't tolerate age discrimination, she also speaks out for women's equality, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one of two daily newspapers in Seattle, Washington, United States, the other being the Seattle Times. History The P-I, Seattle's first newspaper, was founded on December 10, 1863 as the Seattle Gazette . In a recent meeting with Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , the man behind Microsoft, Arfa asked him why the company doesn't hire people her age and questioned the company's disproportionate hiring of women (only 25 percent of Microsoft's staff is female). "It should be balanced--an equal amount of men and women," she said. So did Gates offer Arfa a job? Not yet. |
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