{"id":8172,"date":"2016-11-17T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T01:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codelovecode.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:04:13","slug":"the-tech-gender-gap-is-widening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/the-tech-gender-gap-is-widening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tech Gender Gap is Widening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Republic article by\u00a0<a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/meet-the-team\/us\/alison-denisco\/\" rel=\"author\">Alison DeNisco<\/a>\u00a0from October 20, 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Research released last month from <a href=\"http:\/\/maketechherstory.comptia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CompTIA<\/a> identified a lack of role models as one of the main factors discouraging girls from considering careers in tech. Only 37% of girls age 10-17 know of someone with an IT job, CompTIA found.<\/p>\n<p>Awareness is also a problem: Of girls who have not considered an IT career, 69% reported that they did not know what opportunities were available to them, and 53% said additional information about career options would encourage them to consider an IT role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found that while all these kids understand tech from a gadget and device perspective, they don&#8217;t really understand what an IT career could be\u2014their idea is that they could only work at a helpdesk, or in an IT department,&#8221; said Carolyn April, senior director of industry research at CompTIA. &#8220;But a tech career could be a million different things in a million different industries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once girls learn what is available, their interest is just as piqued as the boys,&#8221; April said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/techs-gender-gap-is-getting-worse-not-better-report-says\/\">http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/techs-gender-gap-is-getting-worse-not-better-report-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Republic article by\u00a0Alison DeNisco\u00a0from October 20, 2016. Research released last month from CompTIA identified a lack of role models as one of the main factors discouraging girls from considering careers in tech. Only 37% of girls age 10-17 know of someone with an IT job, CompTIA found. Awareness is also a problem: Of girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8218,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}