Friday, March 11, 2005

NewsFactor Network - Tech Jobs - Why Women Leave I.T.

Found this via /. NewsFactor Network - Tech Jobs - Why Women Leave I.T.: "Women represent nearly half the workers in the U.S. -- 46.6 percent. However, they always have been underrepresented in I.T. Even more discouraging is the fact that the percentage of women working in I.T. jobs is not growing but dropping. That is bad news indeed for employers seeking hard-to-find technical candidates and the women who might otherwise fill those well-paying jobs.
'Skill obsolescence is the number one issue for I.T. workers,' Professor Deb Armstrong of the University of Arkansas told NewsFactor. And it turns out, according to a study by Armstrong and her colleagues, that certain facts of women's lives make staying ahead of the game harder than it is for men."

So where have all the women gone?

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