Resumen
The article reports that the scarcity of information technology workers has been widely acknowledged. With the downturn in the U.S. economy and the widespread failures of many dot-com companies, the extreme labor shortage appears to be easing somewhat. However, the longstanding technology labor crunch is by no means over. Demand remains for workers with knowledge of specialized technology languages, such as Java and XML programming. While it is very important to draw more women to the IT field, it is equally important to ensure these new workers are welcomed fully into the IT community. Results suggest women have greater representation maintaining Cobol legacy systems rather than engineering new systems using languages such as Java or C++. In a similar vein, the overall slight percentage difference favoring males for SQL and Oracle may indicate that women focus more on reporting functions for existing systems rather than engineering new ones.