Women believe IT careers harder to pursue

09:26 27th February 2009

Nearly 60 per cent of women believe that it is harder for them to pursue IT careers than it is for their male colleagues, reports womenintechnology.co.uk.

Almost 170 women were questioned in the survey and over half said they think their male colleagues are also better paid than they are.

That said, the research suggests that most women are generally positive about their IT careers, with the opportunity to work with new technology and a more rapid pace of change considered two of the best elements of working in IT.

Maggie Berry, director of womenintechnology.co.uk, said: "This research provided some very interesting feedback and statistics and highlighted some important issues that women in IT face throughout their careers."

She added that the issues raised will take time to properly address but that the organisation has every intention of improving the working lives of professional IT women.

Server packages provider Memset recently suggested that businesses could benefit from having more women in the UK workforce.