Absence of Women in Tech Industries is a Myth

(National Report) – Twitter, the social networking company, recently had to use more than 140 characters to explain the absence of women on the 7 man board of directors. The result has been a misconstrued national conversation on why so few women are leading in the tech industries.

Approximately 51 percent of publically traded technology based firms have at least single female presence on their board of directors, compared to 64 percent of all other industries, as reported by the New York Times. If it seems kind of ridiculous to cry over a 13 percent differential, it’s because it is ridiculous. Women make up only about 50 percent of the population, yet 64 percent of non-tech industries have at least one womyn on the board of directors. Doesn’t this say that there are like 14% more women in high ranking positions? Of course it does!

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The information technologies sector is constantly changing and evolving, women are not being left out or left behind. If anything, the 51 percent of tech companies with a single woman on the board or in the case of Yahoo as CEO, says that women are taking over the industry. Yet critics persist because they want more women running companies.

If the population only has 50 percent women and 51 percent of tech boards have at least one woman, common sense says that equilibrium has been achieved. Not good enough for the lady tech cabals.

Only 27 percent of the technology industry workforce is comprised of people without a penis, yet even twitter admits to having several women in high level management positions. It seems clear that in terms of job quality, women are given a leg up.

Because there are so few women in the workforce and so many running huge technology companies like facebook and yahoo, it follows that the path from the workforce to the corner office is a short leap in high heels. Yet critics continue to bash technology’s “woman problems” as if tech fields are a bro-tastic sausage fest where women are undervalued. It all seems so unfair until one asks “why?”

There is a reason why the “absence of women in technology” myth persists.

The number of “women in tech” networking cabals are too numerous to mention. These are not Saturday afternoon tea parties with floppy hats and clutched pearls. No, the ladies of tech have formed a monopoly of evil that twists the fate of men from one of playful machismo into a fiery magna that will destroy all in its path, leaving a foul cement of tears and ashes.

Organizations promoting women in tech fields would not exist if the truth about women in technology was discovered – Technology has plenty of women.

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