﻿ Tech industry still shortchanged on female perspective | ZDNet
Tech industry still shortchanged on female perspective  Summary:
ZDNet's 20th anniversary: After two decades of tech, there still
remains few women in the high-tech industry.  I don’t usually
get worked up about gender issues, but I am dismayed with how
few women there still are in the high-tech industry in 2011
versus 20 years ago.  As technology becomes increasingly
integral to business sustainability and to society, I feel my
sex is missing out--which means the industry likewise is
shortchanged on the woman’s perspective. I liken it to running a
medical research trial and neglecting to include women and girls
in the clinical sample.  Gallery: Women of tech: Few but mighty
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures that of the roughly
537,000 people working as computer and information systems
managers in 2010, 70.1 percent were men. If you do the math,
that means only 29.9 percent were women. I don’t know what the
figures were for 1991 when