In 2024, a global developer survey revealed that approximately ** percent of the developers identified as male, while the share of female developers globally stood at around ** percent. This majority representation of males in the developer community underscores the historical trend of male dominance in the tech industry and highlights the challenges and barriers that women may face in entering or advancing in this field.

According to a global software developer survey in 2022, the vast majority of developers are males, accounting for ***** percent of all respondents. Female developers amounted to only **** percent of all respondents, demonstrating the male-dominating reality of software development jobs. Gender imbalance in the tech industry The tech industry has an overwhelming gender imbalance, in which women at leading tech companies tend to be the minority. Consider Dell’s workforce and Intel’s workforce as an example. In both leading tech companies, women make up only around ** percent of the workforce. Computing related positions in the United States vary on gender breakdown, with computer hardware engineers ranking the lowest in terms of gender diversity as of late. Diversity & inclusion initiatives When tech industry CEOs and founders were asked whether diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives were effective, **** indicated that they were not effective. This comes at an interesting time, especially given the overall gender imbalance in the tech industry. Not to mention, the majority of senior management positions within the IT industry are dominated by men. Diversity and inclusion initiatives could help to resolve workplace harassment and unequal treatment that many female executives experience within the tech industry today.

In the Ukraine in 2020, ** percent of software developers are female. At the other end of the spectrum of European countries in terms of gender composition is Lithuania, where about ** percent of software developers are women. Notably, ***** from the top five countries with the highest share of women in software development are Baltic states. Generally, there are ***** women developers for every ten developers in Europe. Software developers are high in demand Software developers are high in demand on the job market. As software development is a broad category that includes a wide variety of specific tasks and skills to perform the job, there is a great gap between available talent and required staff. In general, software developers are involved in the development process of software, including the analysis of users’ needs or assessing the level of security to ensure that software projects meet requirements. Global gender imbalance in tech industry remains pervasive Overall, the gender composition of professionals employed in the tech industry remains imbalanced, as more males than females are generally employed by global tech companies. This observation can also be made when zooming in on technical positions. For example, women more commonly occupy user experience (UX) designer positions than developer positions.

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A survey conducted between late 2021 and early 2022 found that only **** percent of software developers worldwide are female. This underrepresentation is indicative of a broader gender diversity issue in the tech industry.

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A game developer survey in 2021 found that 61percent of responding game developers were men, while 30 percent were women. The share of female game developers is up from 21 percent in 2017. Approximately eight percent of game developers did not identify as either men or women.

This statistic displays the results of a survey about the employability rate among IT engineering graduates across India in 2018, based on gender. The survey revealed that the role of associate in ITeS operations in hardware and networking had the highest employability rate for female graduates at **** percent. The lowest employability rate for females was found for the role of software engineer in IT product at **** percent compared to **** for male graduates.

As of 2022, women accounted for around 26.2 percent of all employees working in computer and mathematical occupations in the United States. During the same period, around 21.4 percent of all U.S. computer programmers were of Asian ethnicity.

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In 2024, the share of female Google employees worldwide in leadership positions amounted to 32.8 percent. The majority of leadership employees were men. Overall, about two thirds of Google employees worldwide were male.

As of June 2022, only 37.1 percent of all global Meta Platforms employees were women. The majority of employees were male. Overall, women made up 25.8 percent of tech roles and 60.5 percent of non-tech roles.

** percent of IT professionals worldwide hold at least one certification according to respondents in 2019. Interestingly enough, North America is below the global average with only ** percent of respondents answering as such.

IT certifications are influential in hiring decisions    

An IT certification is an honorific document demonstrating a professional’s competency in a certain aspect of technology. IT certifications help to boost the credibility and marketability of related IT skills. More than ** percent of U.S. companies that place high value in the understanding and utilization of technology consider IT certifications to be very valuable in their hiring process. On a global scale, the ratio of certified to non-certified IT professionals are highest in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, with certified IT professionals in these regions constituting more than ** percent of the IT workforce.

Unequal representation of female workers in tech   

Although IT industry employees are in high demand, diversity within the industry is surprisingly low as most employees in tech companies worldwide are male. Women account for less than ten percent of software developers worldwide and only a quarter of all employees in computer and mathematical occupations in the United States.

In 2023, U.S. female software developers (applications and system software) earned on average 2,020 U.S. dollars per week, while their male counterparts earned 2,296 U.S. dollars. Male chief executives took home an average of 2,983 U.S. dollars per week, while a female in the same role could expect to take home 2,520 U.S. dollars a week.

Meta Platforms had ****** full-time employees as of December 2024, down from ****** people in 2023. As of December 2023, more than ******* employees at tech companies worldwide were laid off throughout the year across more than 1,000 companies. Facebook: how it all beganIn 2003, a sophomore at named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students. He then would pair two of them next to each other on a program called “Facemash” and ask users to choose the more attractive person. At the beginning of 2004, Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook,” a social network dedicated to Harvard students, which later grew to encompass Columbia, Yale and Stanford. The popularity of this new service sky-rocketed and in mid-2004, Zuckerberg interrupted his studies and moved his operation to Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. By 2006, Facebook was open to the general public. In 2020, the company reported almost ** billion U.S. dollars in revenue and a net income of ***** billion US dollars. It is also the most popular social network in the world, with *** billion monthly active users as of December 2020. Facebook employee diversity criticismLike many other tech companies, Facebook has been criticized for having a diversity problem. As of June 2020, tech positions, as well as management roles in U.S. offices were overwhelmingly occupied by men. Furthermore, almost ** percent of Facebook employees in the U.S. are White and only *** percent are African-American, which has sparked concern regarding representation and equal opportunities. Around **** percent of senior level positions are occupied by White employees and only *** percent by Hispanic-Americans.

Over **** million students were enrolled in the computer science engineering discipline in the academic year 2022. The second highly sought-after engineering discipline was electronics with about *** thousand students for the same year. What is the process of enrollment in engineering colleges? The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main is a national-level exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) and is the gateway to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) or the National Institute of Technology (NIT) and other leading engineering colleges. Different Indian states also organize Common Entrance Tests (CETs) for engineering admissions. Most of these engineering colleges are government run and subsidized. Why is engineering a popular profession in India? As a developing economy, the sector offers various work opportunities in the infrastructure, construction, and transport sectors in India. The IT industry is also one of the largest employers in India. Job opportunities in the sector include new and promising areas such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity among others. Hence it is not surprising that the stream is most opted for by engineering students. In addition to an abundance of job opportunities, the sector offers high earning potential and boosts chances of landing a job abroad, given the high unemployment rate in India.