The ICT industry is still having a balanced presence of women

The CTO of Cisco has highlighted the difficulties that women still in this sector, dominated by men, to gain access to senior managers.

The women in the technology industry continue to be a large minority.

In the latest ranking of Fortune 500, the list that contains the 500 largest U.S. companies, appear only 21 women who hold the post of CEO.

Other data presented recently corroborate these low figures. According to the National Center for women and information technology from us.UU. (NCWIT), women represent only 14% of the posts of senior management work in Silicon Valley startups.

In general, only 23% of the workers in positions related to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are women, in accordance with the initiative to national Math + Science (NMSI).

The Technical Director (CTO) of Cisco, Padmasree Warrior, is one of the few that stands out among the high profiles of technology and one of the most influential people in the industry.

But even she found it difficult to enter in the ICT industry, dominated by men, when he began his career.

"When I started working we were only a group of women in the sector," said in a post published on the corporate blog of Cisco.

The directive has pointed out that there is no shortage of jobs in science, technology, engineering or mathematics and are very well paid positions. There is a lack of representation of women in these jobs.

Earlier this week the CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, has been recognized as one of the 100 most outstanding inside between the STEM subjects CEO, granted by the STEMconnector organization.

However, only 18 of the 100 senior executives recognized were women, another fact that Warrior has highlighted how "disappointing".

Google shuffles the possibility of having for its upcoming financial operations venture capital firms

Google wants to continue making major investments from technology companies purchase and considering allying with venture capital companies to obtain the necessary financing.

Don Harrison, director of the area of mergers and acquisitions of Google, has confirmed to Bloomberg that his company could invest for economic performance, and others in order to acquire any asset that is interesting to them.

In this scenario, the Mountain View company is considering for the first time the possibility of relying on venture capital firms to help them finance their operations.

In addition, desire that these firms offer once they end operations, professional advice in such a way that they serve as support if the acquired company needs a restructuring.

Harrison also wanted to highlight that purchases that you make from Google will be designed to add any product to its portfolio, and will have the Mission of ensure that users are increasingly "attached" to their online services.

The official revealed that before you buy a company, Google wonder if it offers a service that used the Internet once or twice a day, and if it helps to solve a problem.

That line has been the recent Waze according to Harrison, will serve to improve the Google Maps service and make it more accurate in its indications.

Finally, Harrison has commented that although they take into account the price before you buy a company, they are willing to pay a high amount if it is a product that presents important signs of growth.