My company (PCMS) seems to be more diverse than average. We have a number of women working in IT though I would say it is still probably only 15%. Most of the women at my company are in Human Resources, Marketing, Accounting, and a number of office management jobs. All of these positions have women in them. There may be certain types of jobs women gravitate to just by nature. Women tend to multi-task better than men. They also tend to communicate better and the jobs I listed need those skills.
I don't want to start a flame war of course. I'm just saying that people's skills tend to direct them toward certain jobs. There is no way I would want to do HR, Marketing, Accounting, and so on. Conversely, the people in these jobs would rather not do what I do. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Rakesh <[email protected]>wrote: > > we have about 30 developers of which one is female at my current company. > > I think in the UK it is known that women do not seem attracted to > careers in IT. Not sure why. > > Incidentally, the teams I have worked on with higher ratios of women > have been Indian offshore/onshore teams. > > R > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Volkmann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think there are two females out of about 100 developers in my > > company. This is not by choice. We just don't get many females that > > apply for positions. > > > > I'm involved in two local user groups. One focuses on Java and has an > > attendance around 45. The other focuses on functional and dynamic > > languages and has an attendance around 35. It is very rare to see a > > single female developer at either group. > > > > -- > > R. Mark Volkmann > > Object Computing, Inc. > > > > > > > > > > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
