Friday, June 8, 2007

What women in IT want

<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2143245,00.asp?kc=EWKNLEND060807STR5">Could women be the answer to IT's dwindling work force?</A> Penn State researchers argue the fairer sex is under-represented in the industry, and taking steps to increase their numbers would serve to swell the ranks of the overall work force and promote diversity.

While women accounted for almost 60 percent of the U.S. labor force in 2004, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the same period they accounted for 32 percent of the IT work force. Furthermore, according to a 2005 ITAA (Information Technology Association of America) study, women who leave the IT workplace are less likely than their male counterparts to return.

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