IT accounts for 4.6m US jobs - and most of them are going to men
Proportion of female workers in IT down at 25% from 31% in 1990: Census Bureau
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THE percentage of women working in the information technology field has always been relatively low, but it didn't use to be as low as it is now.
It peaked at 31 per cent in 1990, then declined by about 6 per cent over the past decade, even as the percentage of women in other occupations has steadily risen. That's just one notable metric from a new Census Bureau report released last week that provides a bird's-eye view of the changing field of computer work since the 1970s.
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