Women Ditching UK IT Jobs Hit High, BCS Says

According to the British Computer Society (BCS), about 37,000 women working in the IT industry left their jobs from 2001 to 2007.

In 2001, IT women accounted to 229,440, which was 23 percent of the IT workforce. The number significantly went down last year, a record low of 192,580 despite the increase in the overall number of IT workers across the United Kingdom.

Jan Peters, BCS Women’s Forum manager, said that businesses are concerned about losing women in the IT department. Peters added, “I was talking to an organisation where 40 per cent of its IT department were women and that had fallen to 33 per cent. Women are drifting away from IT or moving to companies that do more to attract them.”

According to Peters, it is necessary for business firms to hire more women IT support professionals to  profit from various approaches in solving company problems. Peters said, “Women help create a different atmosphere in meetings. It’s not necessarily so aggressive.”

The rationale behind the aggregating resignation among IT women remains unclear. Though, one reason cited by BCS was that women ventured in the IT industry at a very brisk rate and they are now easing off from the rigorous undertakings of the IT profession.

 

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