Women in Science And Technology careers

I came across this interesting article as part of the Women's History Month, "Women and Work: Then, Now, and Predicting the Future for Women in the Workplace".

According to the U.S. Department of Labor: Women in Science and Technology Careers in the 2001 Current Population Survey (CPS) data

• three out of ten computer systems analysts, engineers, and scientists were women
  
• one out of four computer programmers was a woman
  
• one out of ten employed engineers was a woman
  
• two of ten employed engineering technologists and technicians were women.
  

There is an interesting section on what employers can do to bridge the gap in the article. This a link to another intersting article Why Girls Don't Compute . It brings out some points on why girls are turned off technology early in their life.