Answer to Question #187155 in Sociology for Evans

Question

Two reasons why women are not engaged as active members in the field of information technology are 

Answer 1

Race. Due to lack of understanding of race with regard to gender-technology relationships shows the underrepresentation of women in technology occupations and jobs. For instance, black women are the most affected since they lack in classrooms and technology spaces, there are also many barriers for black women when they intend to enter the computing industry

Education. Mass marketing of personal computers to boys as toys to play games thus, fiddling with the computers by boys led to increased interest and preparedness for computer and information technology classes by young men. In higher education there is diminished turn out of females to undertake IT or computer related degree programs. Recently research has shown that some aspects as regards to computing may discourage women to engage actively in the field of information technology. Additionally, computer programmers featured in popular media are overwhelmingly men, contributing to an absence of role models for future-be female computer programmers.