Representation of Women in Silicon Valley IT Jobs

This has been a constant worry that women are under-presented in the IT jobs. While some have taken this as an issue of ‘glass ceiling’, it looks more as an issue of women seeing this as a not-so-attractive industry – because of the similar percentage of representation across the various IT roles.

Computer Operators : 51.4%
Operations Research Analysts : 47.6%
Computer support specialists : 27.7%
Computer scientists : 27.5%
Information Systems Manager : 27.2%
Database administrators : 29.2%
Network systems and Data communication analysts : 23.7%
Network and Computer systems administrators : 21.4%
Computer programmers : 22.4%
Software engineers : 20.9%
Hardware engineers : 19.4%
Computer and Mathematical occupations (Overall) : 24.8%