Women in the IT Industry

Women in the IT Industry

December 18, 2012
Recently there has been more attention focused on women in the IT industry because there are so few. A 1998 Association for Computing Machinery report stated that women compose less than one third of the nation's computer scientists and programmers, barely twice that of 1988- less than half a million women holding only 20 percent of the jobs. This is, at least in part, explained by a 1997 Global Strategy Group poll that found that 49 percent of the college-bound females they interviewed said that the tech industry is too boring, difficult, or technical.