Originally posted by: TonyPearson
Byte and Switch magazine published an article on
Top Women in Storage.
I thought of this as it was recently announced that Cindy Grossman, IBM VP of Tapeand Archive systems, will also serve as Site Level Manager for the IBM Tucson lab.
The motivation for the Byte and Switch article was probably from this article in Wall Street Journal detailingthe status of women in IT sales positions. Here is an excerpt:
Today, 13.5% of EMC's sales force is female, the company says, compared with 40% at International Business Machines Corp. and 29% at CA Inc., a big software vendor, those companies say. According to the 2000 U.S. census, about 25% of high-tech employees nationally were women.
IBM recognizes that diversity provides unique advantages in dealing with a global marketplace. Not only are women well represented on our IT sales force, they are also well represented on our board of directors, our Worldwide Management Committee, and our executive team overall, as well as in technical positions such as IBM Fellows, Distinguished Engineers, members of the IBM Academy of Technology. Working Mother magazine has rated IBM one of the top 10 "Best Companies" for women to work for in each of the 18 years that it has published this list.
In 2006, 51 camps called EXITE (Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering) were held worldwide in 33 countries. The hope is to get young girls to pursue college degrees in computer science, math and engineering, so that they can then help fill the shortage of technical resources in IT.
So, if you are a women discouraged at your current place of employment, and are looking for exciting new opportunities in IT, come check out working for IBM!