Re: Gender diversity in engineering

[Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 4, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote:

>> From: Allison Mankin [allison.mankin@xxxxxxxxx]
>> 
>> I'd be interested to learn of studies of the CS workforce outside the
>> US.  Are there recruitment and attrition problems everywhere?
> 
> I've seen reports in the popular press that the fraction of women
> entering software is higher in many Asian countries than in the US, so
> presumably there is solid information to that extent.
> 
> I've heard anecdotes that the fraction of women in software in Israel
> is much higher than in the US.

Around 30%-40%. I don't have hard numbers, but I have a feeling that it has gone down a bit in the last 10 years. One of my tasks is to give a monthly "VPN basics" talk to new recruits, and women seem to be about 1 in 4. This could be specific to my company, though.

Yoav