ITAA Diversity Study: Numbers of Women, Minorities in Tech Too Low. The IT work force needs to get more diverse! Women are only 32.4%, Hispanics only 6.4%. Blacks are underrepresented by 22.4% and whites by 6.6%! Asians continue to be twice as overrepresented in the IT workforce as in the general population, so we know what the solution has to be, as the report says, “With competitors like China, India and Western Europe on our heels,” we have to decrease the representation of Americans of Chinese and Indian descent in the IT workforce to make room for more diversity!
Also, the consensus among geeks is that there aren’t enough hot chicks in the IT field, and the industry needs to perform outreach so that it can win them away from sales and marketing jobs which are mind-numbing and not nearly as fly as programming….
Posted by razib at 11:03 AM