Women already account for around 30% of IT employees

More than half of Polish women who work in the IT industry today graduated from studies other than IT, with as much as 22 percent of them gained knowledge and skills on their own – showed the latest edition of the No Fluff Jobs report ‘Women in IT’. It also said that every third woman employed in IT has changed into the world of new technologies, and what attracts them the most are high earnings and attractive opportunities for personal development. The managing director of Geek Girls Carrots, Katarzyna Marchocka, emphasizes that these are much larger today than a decade ago. And although the percentage of women in IT / TECH in Poland today fluctuates around 30 percent, it could still be much higher.

"The year 2021 was hailed as the year of women in the new technologies industry, so it can be said that their position is currently very good. Practice shows that we are in this industry about 30 percent, which is an increase compared to the period from a decade ago by 300 percent. So we can say that it is good, but we want it to be better. We want this proportion to be 50 to 50 percent or even more in favor of women, so as Geek Girls Carrots we still operate," Katarzyna Marchocka, director Managing Geek Girls Carrots, an organization that promotes women's participation in technology industries, said.

(Newseria)