Women in technology: myth or reality?

Every year, Stackoverflowcollects and visualizes data from the world of the IT industry. According to statistics collected, the percentage of women employed in the IT field is extremely low. In 2015, it was 5.8%, in 2018 -6.9%. Let's see why the percentage of working women in the IT sphere occupies systematically low positions.

The main reason for the low percentage of women in the IT area lies in the imposed stereotypes that have nothing to do with reality. Because of the existing ideas about the IT sphere, the girls themselves refuse to go into this field. We have identified three main stereotypes that exist in the world of information technology:

For more than a year, Lucky Hunter recruiters have conducted interviews with more than a thousand IT specialists. More than a hundred of them subsequently have landed a job. Among them were both young female specialists, and experienced male professionals. We will not provide statistics, precisely because the gender of the candidate does not matter in IT.

We do not claim to be the world's foremost authority, perhaps in other agencies the situation is different, but our example shows that women in the IT world are only welcome.

Interestingly, in rare cases, customers want to hire a girl as a new employee for one simple reason: they just want to "dilute" the men's team. Of course, when choosing an employee, professional skills still play a key role, but this example will serve as proof of equal opportunities for women in the IT world.