Women continue to leave IT

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 at CIO Insight

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