Increasing Gender Diversity in the IT Work Force

The IT industry is moving towards gender diversity by encouraging more women and minorities to choose IT careers which inturn will help raise the numbers in the field by adopting number of important policy implications to be effective for women in It industry. The four studies conducted with IT professionals of over 500 IT and non-IT professionals compared number of factors as family backgrounds, work histories, educational experiences, and personality, and allowed to facilitate the reasons for gender-based differences in career choice. The data collected indicated that more than two-thirds of the gender difference between IT professions can be accounted for by differences in the distribution of general occupational themes (GOT) scores between men and women. The analysis also exhibited important differences in the way men and women entered IT where only six out of 16 women found to be qualified with computer science degrees thereby suggesting the need of redesigning of this job industry.