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DevOps: Social, cooperative... It's gotta be really diverse, right?

Rob D.

Only men or women

I'm going to assume no transgender jiggery-pokery and assert that 'non-women' actually means 'men'. Non-STEM just means every other career area. So for example, the non-women, i.e. men, part is really easy - just take every %-age mentioned for women and subtract it from 100%.

You can have a trawl through this from the IET which is a bit scatter-gun and has a touch of an ideological undertone but it includes all the references if you want details:

http://mycommunity.theiet.org/files/7976#.VbTQ7fkbJ_8

Observations like women are 47% of the total workforce but 13% in STEM careers (men are 53% of the workforce but 87% in STEM); 17% full time STEM professors are female but 26.7% in non-STEM (83% full time STEM professors are male but 73.3% in non-STEM); 1/3 UK managers are female but one in ten STEM managers are female (2/3 UK managers are male but 90% of STEM managers are male); every non-STEM FTSE100 has at least one woman on the board while one in five STEM FTSE100 have no women (no non-STEM FTSE100 are all male while one in five FTSE100 STEM is all male).

Note to self: neither make nor assume any assertion that this is either caused by gender or that any of it must be equalised on some moral ground - this subject isn't that simplistic.

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