eWeek has an interesting article regarding women working in IT, or rather, women not working in IT. The article is, Where Did All the Girl Geeks Go?
A professor says he has only one girl in a computer science major class in 2008, down from 40 percent in 2000. What happened? eWEEK gets field experts to weigh in.
While women hold 51 percent of professional jobs in the United States, they make up only 26 percent of the IT work force, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Furthermore, fewer women worked in IT in 2008 than in 2000.
The article later discusses about the need to put more effort into convincing women that working with technology can be cool. This argument and others the article makes for how to get more women involved in IT and computer science is a problem. I don't know a single geek, whether male or female, that had to be convinced that technology is cool.