Careers In Tech Still Dominated By Men
by Will Safer, posted May 16th 2008 at 5:26PM
When it comes to careers in tech, it's still a man's world.
According to Susan Merritt, the dean of the computer science program at Pace University in New York, only 10 percent of computing majors are women. One of the suggested reasons for such low interest among women could be that, as kids, boys are more likely to be interested in video games than girls, and gaming activity often leads to an interest in computer science.
But having good role models can also play a part.: Merritt said that women make closer to 30 percent of the computing majors at her school, which has a faculty with more women professors.
The general trend, the article in USA Today states, follows long established patterns with women, who as young girls are often discouraged from excelling in math or science, often in an effort to appear more attractive to boys, who are easily put off by girls who do well academically.
[Source: USA Today]
