prousa - Slashdot User

Comment Any loyalty to USA? (Score 1) 484

by prousa on Friday April 12, 2013 @07:46AM (#43431039) Attached to: Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies

So, folks like Zuckerberg and B Gates make tons of money and have great success in the USA, but then insist there aren't qualified local US workers to be found. But interestingly there are tons of talented fully qualified people to be found in low wage countries such as India, the Philippines, etc (forget higher wage Japan or Western Europe). And all the while, layoffs and outsourcing occur, wages stagnate, and companies are offering fewer and fewer training opportunities. Today they want workers who can hit the ground running with NO training at all. Is there something wrong with this picture? Isn't it most likely the corps are just wanting to maximize profits by lowering labor costs?

Women Dropping Out of IT 706

Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 26, 2010 @03:48PM from the both-blatent-and-subtle dept.

Women's eNews has an interesting look at women in tech, with numbers showing that women are bailing out of the IT field at a rapid pace. "Technology jobs are predicted to grow at a faster rate than all other jobs in the professional sector, up to 22% over the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Compensation is also good. In 2008, women in tech made an average salary of $70,370. ... But women's stake in that rosy outlook is questionable. For starters, men's pay during the same time period was $80,357. A study by the National Center for Women and Information Technology ... also finds that women are leaving computer careers in staggering numbers. 'Fifty-six percent of women in technology companies leave their organizations at the mid-level point, 10-20 years in their careers,' said Catherine Ashcraft, the senior research scientist who authored the report. In 2008, women held only 25% of all professional IT-related jobs, down from 36% in 1991, according to the group's report, 'Women in IT: The Facts.'"

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