Tech Needs More Women
There, I said it. The tech industry needs more women to get in and make things right again. It’s way too male dominated and it doesn’t have to be.
Over half of the professionals in the United States are women. They account for nearly 50% more college degrees than men. With this kind of knowledge, how is it right that less than 20% of the working computer hardware engineers are men? Answer: it isn’t.
This graphic by our friends at SocialCast lays the foundation for why the tech world needs more women. Pay attention – we should expect to see this male-dominated industry fall to the females soon enough.
to this article, i say: Olivia Munn, LaLa from TikiBarTV, Veronica Belmont, Natali Morris (previously DelConte), Molly Wood, Sarah Lane, Leah Culver, Neha Tiwari, Annie Gaus, Elieen Rivera, Stephanie Chu, Jackie Talbot, Calli Lewis all the girls from CNET, all the girls from Revision3, all the girls from G4 and countless others!
Olivia Munn? Are you serious right now?
And to “all the girls from G4” I say… cleavage, legs, ass, endless levels of sexual exploitation because G4 is marketed to MEN in the tech industry, just like most of the other crap. Male gaze. Look it up.
Um, who cares? Male, female, you’re human! Shutup!
Under Notable Female, you forgot : Sandra Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems.
What a crock of sh*t. That’s as dumb as saying professional basketball needs more short people. Women have had (and still do) plenty of opportunity in tech. They CHOOSE not to. Tech is a demanding, running on internet time career, and there’s no such thing as a “time out” to take little jimmy to the dentist or several weeks off to have a baby. It’s not the men’s fault that women choose family over career.
“…how is it right that less than 20% of the working computer hardware engineers are men?”
This type of disparity stems from two primary contributors (and no neither of them has anything to do with discrimination or sexism).
First, far fewer women choose to pursue technical careers to begin with. The graphic points out that 3 women receive a college degree for every two men, but the overwhelming majority of these degrees received by women are in non-technical, non-science fields of study.Additionally, many tech and engineering jobs require very high levels of intelligence to succeed. We’re talking IQ scores of 140+ (I know IQ isn’t a perfect measure of intelligence but it’s good enough for the purpose of this argument). Now while the average female IQ score is about 1.5 points higher than the average male score, males have a much larger standard deviation from the average. This means that despite the lower average intelligence, the number of men with the high intelligence required for technical jobs is simply larger than the number of women with this same level of intelligence. These are statistical facts that anyone can easily confirm.
These two factors in combination easily account for about 95% of such large disparity in the mix of men and women in the technical workforce, and until either of these changes (which they won’t) the tech sector will continue to be male dominant.