How great a disparity is there between the number of women and men employed in high-tech occupations?
Biological technicians and statisticians were the only two technology-oriented occupations in which more women were employed than men in 2001. According to 2001 Current Population Survey (CPS) data, one out of ten employed engineers was a woman, while two of ten employed engineering technologists and technicians were women. Among engineering specialties, industrial, chemical, and metallurgical/materials engineers were the only occupations in which women were more highly represented than the overall percent of total women engineers. Women made up 17 percent of all industrial engineers, 12 percent of metallurgical/metal engineers, and 11.5 percent of chemical engineers. Among all other engineering specialties–aerospace, mining, petroleum, nuclear, agricultural, civil, electrical or electronic, mechanical, marine, or naval architects–women represented fewer than 11 percent. Text Version At the same time, three out of ten computer systems analysts, engineers, and scientists were women. I
