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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 21 2017, @10:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-just-infosec dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The global cybersecurity workforce remains stagnant at just 11 percent, according to the 2017 Women in Cybersecurity Report[PDF], co-authored by The Executive Women's Forum on Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy (EWF) and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education, which partnered with (ISC)2. The report is based on survey responses from over 19,000 information security professionals in 170 countries.

Report co-author and EWF founder Joyce Brocaglia says the most important finding of the report is that "it isn't just one thing" causing the persistent shortage of women in information security, but rather a "confluence of events."

The findings, says Brocaglia, show that women are underrepresented, are paid less than their male colleagues, feel undervalued, and feel discriminated against. "That's what's leading to this stagnation."

The shortage is severe in North America, with only 14 percent of the infosec workforce composed of women, but even more striking elsewhere; women only claim 7 percent of the workforce in Europe, 8 percent in Asia, and 5 percent in the Middle East, according to the report.

"Common sense should tell you we should be doing more about this," says co-author and EWF executive director Lynn Terwoerds, noting that in order to solve the cybersecurity skills shortage, the industry must do a better engaging the female population.

Source: http://www.darkreading.com/careers-and-people/women-still-only-11--of-global-infosec-workforce/d/d-id/1328409


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:45PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:45PM (#482200)

    > Have you seriously NEVER heard somebody claim that "he got that job because he's black" or "she only got that position because she's a woman"?

    The point is that I have NEVER heard somebody claim that "he got that job because he's white" or that "he only got that position because he's a man."
    Despite the fact that it is the case ALL THE TIME.

    > "Screw ups" are different from a general assumption of lack of competence for an entire group.

    No they aren't. At best you are splitting hairs. Nobody implies that a minority is incompetent when they demonstrate competence. Only when they do a mediocre job or actually screw up. But when a white man does a mediocre job nobody ever, ever blames it on their whiteness.

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:54PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @03:54PM (#482208)

    The reason nobody blames the whiteness is because whiteness was never a factor in his hiring in the first place. To borrow a phrase: Get it, yet?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @04:50PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @04:50PM (#482237)

      Just because it wasn't a literal checkbox on the qualifications list doesn't mean it wasn't a factor.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @08:28PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 21 2017, @08:28PM (#482372)

        Get it yet?