Female IT professionals cope in a male-dominated industry

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Sanibel, fla.―As a co-founder of Trend Micro, a $350 million maker of anti-virus and content-filtering products, Eva Chen could be considered one of the most influential women in IT. But when she goes on business trips to Japan with an entourage of software engineers, Chen puts away the business card that lists her title as "chief technology officer and executive vice president" and instead hands out one that reads: "engineering secretary? The switch is a response to a cultural bias in Japan against women in authority, she said.