Where do they go?49% use training—become self-employed, government & non-profit, start companies51% don’t use training: 31% non tech job, 20% leave workforce,
In short, the industry increasingly fails to capitalize on the talent of a vast majority of women — a population that makes up more than half of the U.S. workforce. This is a devastating loss of capital, particularly in the face of an impending shortage of workers.--NCWIT
Women in IT: The Facts:Catherine Ashcraft, Ph.D. and Sarah Blithe National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) (2009)Etsy.com: 80% of customers female, 3% of engineers wereTo change that: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/19/etsy-women-coders/Social media: many sites over 50% female users: Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Instagram, Pinteresthttp://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/chicks-rule/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/social-media-by-gender-women-pinterest-men-reddit-infographic_n_1613812.htmlhttp://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-media-users/The-State-of-Social-Media-Users.aspx
Catherine Ashcraft and Anthony Breitzman, “Who Invents IT?: An Analysis of Women's Participation inInformation Technology Patenting,” National Center for Women & Information Technology (2007).Women in IT: The Facts:Catherine Ashcraft, Ph.D. and Sarah Blithe National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) (2009)teams comprising men and women produced the most frequently cited patents—with citation rates that were 26 to 42 percent higher than the norm for similar patents. 1980, female patenting rates were 1.7 percent, and they climbed steadily to 6.1 percent in 2005.201980-2005 US IT patents increased 5X U.S. female IT patents increased 14X
http://resources.dice.com/report/dice-tech-salary-survey-results-2012/In 2008, technical women earned an average salary of $70,370Over the same time period, men’s salaries averaged $80,357 When women have financial independence, informs every other decision in their lives
