The latest research paints a grim picture for women in technology. Fewer women enroll in college-level computer science courses today than 20 years ago.
Female entrepreneurs collect a pittance of the venture capital handed out by money men.
The region's tech millionaires are mostly white males approaching middle age. Nowhere is this practice more evident than in the virtual communities and user groups that tech-savvy women are creating for themselves. In the Washington area alone, the D.C. Web Women, Women in Technology and the Association for Women in Computing all hold court online and in occasional in-person meetings. The groups are diverse, to best serve their creators' needs. In the span of a day, you can find job postings, gloats over a piece of perfect code, squabbles about nasty co-workers and even parodies of recent movies.