Women Still Underrepresented in Information Security (betanews.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Women make up only 11 percent of the cyber security workforce according to the latest report from the Center for Cyber Safety and Education and the Executive Women's Forum (EWF). The survey of more than 19,000 participants around the world finds that women have higher levels of education than men, with 51 percent holding a master's degree or higher, compared to 45 percent of men. Yet despite out qualifying them, women in cybersecurity earned less than men at every level and the wage gap shows very little signs of improvement. Men are four times more likely to hold C and executive level positions, and nine times more likely to hold managerial positions than women, globally. More worrying is that 51 percent of women report encountering one or more forms of discrimination in the cybersecurity workforce. In the Western world, discrimination becomes far more prevalent the higher a woman rises in an organization.

Comments

Re:Pushing towards any different than pushing away

[epyT-R]

Individual choice derived from conscious, unconscious, and environmental factors? Are you kidding? That's fascism!

Re:Women want security and not to feel abandoned

[lactose99]

My coworkers and I have zero tolerance for slackers.

Hey now, it wasn't THAT bad a film!

Re:This is old territory...

[meta-monkey]

However, something like 95% of workplace-related deaths are men. We need to close the death gap by killing more women.