Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Women work to gain larger foothold in tech industry


Historically, the tech industry has not been especially hospitable to women.

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor released a list of the 20 leading occupations of employed women. None of them was in the technical field. That same year, only 3% of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies were women, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology.

From coders to venture capitalists, women remain a small minority in most tech-related businesses.

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