1. Diversity and Women in IT
Heather Stratford – IT Training Solutions

2. Why So Few Women in IT?

3. Hostile Culture
Isolation
Lack of Role Models

4. In-Group Favoritism: We Hire people that are similar to us.
Current ISACA
image on their
main website.

6. 85% of
Women
Left Tech
For Family
Reasons

8. Why Do Stereotypes Matter?

9. How Do we Change Sterotypes?

10. New Movie - Hidden Figures

11. How Do We
Change
Sterotypes?

12. If there are no women to choose from – they can’t hire Women

13. Cyber Security! The New Field. The Field We NEED Women!
ONLY 11%
Women

14. Top Tech Companies over all jobs are still screwed

15. Percentage of Female Professional Developers:

16. North America is Leading with 18% Tech Leadership Roles Held By Women

17. The Future of Tech is Women!
In the past Flexible jobs were in Teaching, Nursing, Day Care, Basic Office Work
TODAY: Part time Jobs in Technology, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Programming, Web Design, Biotech

18. 2016 Numbers
National Science Foundation

19. Major Decline in Women in Computers

20. University of Wisconsin – Madison Computer Science Majors

21. Skills you Need – Cyber Security
Ability to Work methodically and very detail oriented
Eagerness to dig into technical questions
Enthusiastic and highly adaptable
Strong Analytical and Diagnostic Skills
Demonstrated Skills in innovation and collaboration
Ability to Get the Job Done

22. Skills you Need – Cyber Security
Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills
Ability to Clearly Communicate Complex Concepts
Able to Use Active Listening Skills
Able to Juggle a diverse workload
Technically capable and always learning in the field.

23. College Majors – With the Highest Salaries - Forbes
Computer Science – Average Starting Salary $66,800
Engineering – Average Starting Salary $65,000
Mathematics and Statistics – Ave. Starting Salary $60,300

24. Growing Need for Cyber Security

25. Take-aways YOU COULD BE THAT WOMAN
We need more women in Computers and Science
We need more role models
We need to Change Stereotypes
We need to support Women who are breaking ground
YOU COULD BE THAT WOMAN

26. Cited Sources
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