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Get The Facts!
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North America the public image of computing careers and computing professionals Maria Klawe – Keynote Address at ITiCSE Conference, June 2005 President of Harvey Mudd College Former Dean of Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University
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good news is that the Ohio Job and Family Services department projec Ohio is fortunate that graduation rates from 2-year colleges have risen by 14.16% between 2000 and 2005, with females earning 64% of those associate degrees. Ohio colleges have also experienced a 57% overall growth in the number of associates degrees awarded in computer-related fields during 2000-2005.
 The bad news is that females are missing out on this opportunity! Although females represent a consistent 64% of all associate degrees awarded in Ohio, the percentage of women who earned degrees in computer-related programs actually fell from 47% to 31% between 2000 and 2005! Come meet some interesting, enthusiastic, outgoing, and intelligent women who work in computer and IT jobs. Get rid of your mental image of a computer worker as a nerdy, socially awkward egghead – come see what computer people are really like!
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discourages many talented young people, especially women and
minorities, from choosing to study computer science. For at least the last
decade the computing profession has been widely viewed by high school students,
parents, teachers, and counselors as being for individuals who have been
obsessed with computers since puberty and want to program sixteen hours a day.
Moreover those who choose to study computer science are often stereotyped as
lacking social skills and other interests, and as individuals who work and study
in an isolated environment.” 
But the truth is that IT affects
every single industry – accounting, business, construction, health care,
marketing, manufacturing, travel, food service – even sports and entertainment!
While there are jobs in programming that require a good portion of a worker’s
time to be spent in front of her computer, most IT jobs require a high level of
skill in communication, human relations, problem solving, and creativity. There
are IT jobs available in banks, hospitals, schools, government agencies, hotels,
cruise ships, and TV and radio stations.
ts that over
the next 8 years (to 2014) in the Dayton area, IT related jobs will increase by
23.2%, the highest projected growth industry for the Dayton area, followed
closely at 23.1% by the health care industry. Salary averages for
computer-related jobs are $20 - $44 per hour.
