What is the men-women ratio of IT professionals?
Seventy six per cent of the software professionals in IT companies are men, whereas 24 per cent are were women. However, Nasscom says this ratio is likely to be 65:35 (men:women) by the year 2007. This ratio is reversed in the ITES-BPO sector where the ratio of men to women is 31:69. And what is the scenario in the US IT industry? According to a recent study by the Information Technology Association of America, the percentage of women workforce in the IT industry in the country has declined by 18.5 per cent since 1996. That is, in 1996, while 41 per cent of the IT workers in the US were women, the number of women IT employees decreased to 32.4 percent in 2004. The study said: “Employers hired men at a higher rate than women between 2003 and 2004. The declining representation of women is largely due to the fact that one out of every three women in the IT workforce falls into the administrative job categories that have experienced significant overall declines in recent years.” But in con
