You live in the big city. Oh, and chances are you're probably also a guy. At her last gig, women populated a scant 10 percent of the technical staff. A 1997 Global Strategy Group poll reported that 49 percent of the college-bound females they interviewed said the tech industry is too boring, difficult, or technical. Townsend believes that the gender disparity begins early when boys enter tech-centric lifestyles with gaming.
Girls get more interested in chatting.
The skill set is the same for men as it is for women. The first PC her department purchased went on her desk. She started Datawise after she was laid off from a later tech position at a school district. There's nothing about technology that makes a man better than a woman, she says. The interest is just higher among men.