Why the lack of females in technical roles

jaybee · 5 Feb 2018 at 23:30

Been in IT all my working life and I'd say the ratio of men to women in my actual team across all roles has probably been about 20:1. If we go wider, across entire IT departments, I'd say it would come up to 10:1.

TeraVirus · 14 Apr 2018 at 00:39

My managers in my last two jobs were female, and they were great at their jobs. Even in management roles, they did their time in support, so still able to help out with difficult situations.

OspreyO · 14 Apr 2018 at 09:20

Experience in support usually makes a person into a "can do" person. Always looking for solutions.

FoxEye · 14 Apr 2018 at 21:10

Thread started out interesting, and then descended into 3 pages of PC nonsense.

Shame.

mrbazmondo · 15 Apr 2018 at 02:11

When I was at uni there were 100+ men and 4 women on my course. If women aren't as interested in getting the qualification as men then they aren't going to be getting the jobs that need the qualifications. Maybe this will improve in the future now they're teaching programming to kids. I'm told in other countries like Romania its more like a 50/50 split at school and beyond.

lurkio · 17 Apr 2018 at 21:38

because they choose not to