Women And Tech-Career Misconceptions

Women And Tech-Career Misconceptions.

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Let’s face it. Engineering and computer science have a bad rap for not being the most glamorous professions for women. The opportunities in technical professions are not well represented to women when they are making their career decisions.

And why not? Working in tech can mean good or even great money, upward job mobility, working with super smart people. Maybe even happy hours and free food. Do any of these qualities and perks of working in technology sound gender-specific? Of course not.

And yet the tech industry continues to suffer from a manifest lack of female computer science engineers. The number of first-year undergraduate women interested in majoring in computer science has declined 7 percent since 2000 – even though 1.2 million computer-related job openings are expected by 2022.

The question for women really shouldn’t be “Why choose a career in technology?” but instead “Why not?” And yet misconceptions about the opportunities for females, and what their day-to-day lives are like in a tech company, abound.

Here are five common myths that could be scaring women away, and why they’re not true.

1. YOU HAVE TO BE A MATH WHIZ