Why Aren't there More Female Programmers? | Let's Change That!

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I've seen some of the best women programmers out there, but why is the female programmers percentage so low? Why don't girls like programming (in general)? Why do they settle for the more common business analyst position?

I have been in IT as a programmer for 17 years and I still don't understand why don't girls like computers (generally speaking of course) as much as boys.

Now, I will say there are a lot of women in IT, such as other roles like business analyst positions, project managers, managers and so on. But I will never understand why we don't have more women coders.

It's not that hard, I just think there are some mental blocks that we need to address and dispel. As a father of 2 daughters, I want to see them thrive in the information technology space. There's no reason why we can't have more women coders in information technology.

Men programmers are no smarter than women programmers, I think we just need to crack through the mental blocks and intimidation that future female programmers may have.

There's plenty of room for both boys and girls to be programmers. No need to be intimidated by the "boys club" of programming. These people are not that special. Just take it step by step and you can get in there.

This video is meant to be inspirational. Let's get out there and get the girl programmers percentage up UP and UP!

The education pipeline. In fields of study related to IT -- especially computer science -- there are clear problems with gender diversity in the educational pipeline. For example, only 18 percent of US university computer science (CS) graduates in 2013 were women. And that was down from 1985, when 37 percent of graduates were women. Also, the gender gap in the educational pipeline precedes university (tertiary) education. In the US, only 18 percent of students taking the Advanced Placement Exam for Computer Science in 2013 were women. In the UK, a 2012 survey showed that only 17 percent of girls had learned any computer coding in school, about half the level of the 33 percent of boys who had coded. Some argue that girls are often steered away from science and math courses in primary school. Other experts go earlier still, stressing the role parents need to take in encouraging girls younger than school age to be interested in science and technology.

Recruiting and hiring. According to a 2014 study among UK firms, half of all companies hiring IT workers stated that only one-in-twenty job applicants were women. Further, various studies from multiple countries show that both men and women are twice as likely to hire a man for an IT job as an equally qualified woman -- a pattern that may be driven by unconscious gender biases.

Paying and promoting. A US female web developer makes 79 cents to the dollar men make for the same job; and while female computer and information systems managers have a narrower gap of 87 cents to the dollar, a pay difference is still prevalent. In the US a quarter of women with IT roles feel stalled in their careers. In India the proportion is much higher, at 45 percent. And a survey in the UK states that 37 percent of women in IT say that they have been passed over for promotion because of their gender.

Retaining. Women in IT roles are 45 percent more likely than men to leave in their first year, according to a 2014 US study. The study found that retention was a problem after the first year as well. Potential issues beyond pay and promotion include a hostile or sexist ‘bro-grammer’ culture, as well as workplace policies not suited to women, such as marathon coding sessions, expectations around not having children, and lack of childcare.