Where is she? In search of a senior female IT exec

摘要

Computerworld Canada's 2008 survey salary found that the Canadian IT industry is still chock-a-block with menfolk, with female IT staffers making up a small percentage of the enterprise IT population. The survey polled 3,615 full-time IT professionals from across the country, only 15.37 per cent of which were women. "It's catastrophic," said Cindy Gordon, co-chair for women in technology at the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA). "We've been tracking this over the last three years and have seen a very aggressive decline. It's impacting Canada's competitiveness as a na- tion." She said that women have been a definite part of the ICT enrollment drop-off, citing the fact that the University of Ottawa has seen a 70 per cent drop in IT enrollment over the last while.