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Career Voyages - Information Technology Jobs - Information Technology
If you are considering a career in Information Technology (IT) you'll soon realize that there are many occupations available and that IT careers give you the flexibility to work in many different industries.
From geek to chic: The changing face of computing
You don't have to be a nerdy white guy to be a computer geek. In fact, you can be a woman, a minority, a person with a disability or someone who is downright cool.
Getting Girls Interested in Computers
We must find a way to include girls in computing, without excluding boys at the same time. Below are a few tips that we have learned on getting girls interested in computers.
National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
"NCWIT's overarching goal is parity in the professional information technology (IT) workforce, and our fundamental strategy is to educate, disseminate,and advocate a national, multi-year implementation plan that generates tangible progress within 20 years."
Slashdot | Starting an Education in IT?
"It's overwhelming to start trying to learn all the different technologies needed to go into programming. It seems that every type of technology assumes knowledge of a different one, which in turn requires knowledge of another, until it's gone full circle. I am interested in everything from Unix to AJAX to Perl. Things like HTML, Javascript, and SQL are like English, but then again, they're basic. Where is the best place to start? What is a good path for someone who learns quickly and easily, but who is simply too overwhelmed, to take?"
Women and Computers
Will the best jobs of the future be in the world of computers?
And, if that's the case, will women be left out of these opportunities?
Bee reporter Ilana DeBare and photographer Laura Chun examined this issue over the past several months and discovered a number of reasons why women are underrepresented in high-tech.
Women In Game Development
Coverage of the especially high female participation at this year’s E3 seems to abound (see list below). Having been referred to in a number of articles, the Frag Dolls are calling their gathering at the event the WE3 (Women at E3).
Women in Technology ... this week's musings (Computerworld Blogs)
Sometimes it seems as though the women's movements -- the one in the 19th century that allowed women to own property even when married, the one in the early 20th century that granted the vote, and the one in the late 20th century that was supposed to produce equal employment rights -- never happened.
Tech Resource: The AWC - Tech & IT Job Resources (Monster.com)
Technology societies generally do a great job organizing international conferences and producing technical publications, but they don't always provide a comfortable forum for mentoring and networking. The Association for Women in Computing excels at just those things, offering members a sense of community and a medium to grow as technologists and business leaders. With chapters in metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Washington, DC, the group is a chapter-based organization devoted to the advancement of women in computing.
Young Cyber-Sleuths - May 2006
Just a few months separate Kim Cardona from late nights in the library and final exams, but she believes she already found her professional niche. A December 2005 graduate of Sage College of Albany, N.Y., Cardona hopes her internship at the New York State Police Computer Crime Unit is the beginning of a career in computer forensics. "I'd like to be right where I am now," she said of her occupational goal. That's precisely the aim of the CyberScience Laboratory's Embedded Intern Program, which helped Cardona land with the New York State Police to develop expertise in the computer crime-fighting arena -- an area sorely lacking in trained personnel.
Workforce Data
Business 2.0: 100 Fastest-growing tech companies
Rankings highlight the companies whose business is really booming.
Computing Research Association Women (CRA-W)
The goal of the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) is to take positive action to increase the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) research and education at all levels.
The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline for Women in Computer Science (pdf - ACM-W)
Investigating the Incredible Shrinking Pipeline for Women in Computer Science - Final Report of the ACM-W (The Association of Computing’s Committee on Women in Computing), funded by NSF, on the status of future projections of women in computing.
Ohio IT Clearinghouse IT Workforce Data
The Ohio IT Clearinghouse is a project focused on provided education and career information for the IT and computer science fields. This site contains information compiled from US federal and Ohio state-specific sources, to provide a picture of of the current state, and projected trends, of the profession and it's status in the Ohio economic landscape.
Opening doors for women in computing (CNET News.com)
Data from the National Science Foundation shows that the female share of bachelor's degrees in computer science dropped from 37 percent in 1985 to 28 percent in 2001. And while women comprised 33 percent of information technology professionals in 1990, that figure was down to 26 percent in 2002, according to NSF. The drop is puzzling in part because women are making progress in related areas such as the natural sciences.
Replacing Woodshop (Government Technology Magazine - April 2006)
Do you remember when high schools taught woodshop? Your kids won't. Technology education based on current, industry-driven curricula is rapidly replacing traditional industrial arts in public schools, and one big reason for the shift is a growing worldwide deficit of technology workers. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that the global economy will be short 15 million technical workers by 2020.
Women in computing (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
In the United States, the number of women represented in engineering and information technology peaked in the late 1980s. Since then, the percentage of women in the computing profession declined from 35.2% in 1990 to 28.4% in 2000.
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Women In Computing (O'Reilly Linux DevCenter Blog)
"I encourage all women in tech to be more visible. Visibility is everything. You don’t have to be doing anything spectacular, like curing the common cold or making world peace or doing protest marches or burning your undergarments. Just letting folks know you are there is a big encouragement for girls considering tech careers, and women already in tech careers."
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