Women in Tech - Women do have to take some share of the blame here

All this talk about Women in Tech due to an un-name Google engineer daring to suggest that the reason why there is a gender gap  in companies like Google is because women aren't interested in tech careers.


I must admit, I sort of agree. If you look at the current stats about university courses and the gender divide, it looks pretty grim reading if you want the gender gap to get smaller.


Generally, the path to tech requires either an IT related degree, or an Engineering related degree. Thankfully the ABS records details of the people studying those types of degree. Lets have a look at the aggregate percentages over the years in Australia


In 2016, there are 271,037 people studying in either an IT field or an Engineering Field


Of those, 244,493 are male (90%). Only 26,544 are female (10%)


In 2006, there were 228,300 people studying in wither an IT field or an Engineering Field.


The percentages were then 13% female, 87% male.


So it has gotten a lot worse in 10 years. If it was bad 10 years ago, it is only going to get worse.