The IT industry is losing women hand over fist, according to an analysis of government labor data. In 2000, a little less than one million women worked as IT managers, computer scientists/systems analysts, programmers, software engineers, support specialists, database administrators, network/computer systems administrators or network systems/data communications analysts, making up almost 29 percent of all IT professionals. Those numbers had dropped precipitously by 2006, when 76,000 fewer women worked in IT, a 7.7 percent drop from 2000.
Read more about the decline in women IT pros:
- read the article [1] at CIO Insight
ALSO: read this [2] on why women in IT should speak up to get ahead
Links:
[1] http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,2106559,00.asp?kc=CTRSS03129TX1K0000629
[2] http://www.fiercecio.com/story/women-in-it-speak-up-get-ahead/2007-02-21