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".