Nicolette Martin, a technology manager at 3Com, jokes that there's one quick solution. The lack of women in technology is something everyone in the business knows about on a gut level. Walk through Microsoft, Netscape Communications or Intel. There are women but mostly in marketing, public relations and human resources. Go into the pure technology areas, where people are writing software code or designing hardware, and men predominate.
Numbers tell the story.
Small companies, which are growing much faster than big companies, often have a lower ratio of women. However, Silicon Graphics, which makes the high-powered computers that created the dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park and other special effects, needs highly specialized people. None of its top five is a woman. In other ways, too, women are off the map. It cited 39 people in technology.