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.

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Two Kinds of People...

[Thelasko]

There are two kinds of people in this world, those that discriminate, and liars. Discrimination is innate to the human condition. Our brains are lazy and take shortcuts in decision making. The sooner we all acknowledge this fact, the better.

Once we acknowledge everyone discriminates, we can stop blaming "other people", and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Everyone is guilty, even the victims. Lets all agree to try harder. The way I see it, it's the only way the situation will improve.

Re:Pushing towards any different than pushing away

[AmiMoJo]

Bring able to make individual choices is the basis of feminism, you prat. Including modern feminism.

Go ahead, mod me down.

Re:If we had unions to fight for work-life / famil

[AmiMoJo]

It's more like, a lot of people in IT think they are the shit and don't need any collective bargaining or union because they are above average and will negotiate a better than average salary/conditions anyway.