The lack of Females in Computer related Careers
Information Technology (IT) is a rapidly expanding and demanded industry in today's society. However, while women do well in IT, their involvement is lacking when compared to the dominant percentage of male employees. Unquestionably, IT professionals must encourage more women and girls to study computing and become the high-tech professionals for which there's so strong a demand.
Women, who comprise 51 percent of the population and earn more than half of all bachelor-level degrees awarded, earn about one-quarter of the bachelor-level computer and information sciences degrees awarded by U. S. academic institutions. This has dropped steadily in the United States from 35.8% in 1984, to only 27.5% in 1994. However, this is not due to lack of ability. In 2001 3.8 % of girls received VHA and 6.51 % HA. Yet in the same year only 23.39 % of Yr 12 students doing Information Processing Technology were female. …
