Not only in Cambodia, all over the world, women who works for IT industries or IT department are few is comparing to men. According to TechRepublic.com found that more women found in non-technical roles such as business analysis and training.

The survey found similar under-representation of women in tech roles. A quarter of CIOs admitted they have no women in their technical teams while half of CIOs said they only had one woman on the tech team.

In Cambodia, at University, Computer Science major, we could see only few women in the class among 50 students. After finishing university, there are not so many of them keep working in IT department longer than 3 years. Most of them, attended more than 2 universities, that’s per my experience while passing through different IT event in Cambodia.

IT positions in Cambodia, mostly we can see as following:

• Software Developer (PHP, C#.Net, Java, Ruby etc.)
• Database Administrator (MS SQL Server, Oracle)
• Web Developer/Designer (with framework, CSS, HTML etc.)
• Network Administrator/Support
• etc.

Most companies in Cambodia, they encourage women to work with them if we read most of the job recruitment but it seems not so many of them applied, especially to Software development industries. Of course, through the announcement, that’s kind of one encouragement for women in Cambodia but in real situation, if they really accept women for this kind of works, remaining unclear for me.

Per my perspective, women is suitable for software development or other tech. analysis in terms of their straight, deep concentrated and patient in their personalities. They could do better analyze on the problem, they read carefully on provided functional specification and their detail feedback. Of course, sometimes they refer on their mood and a bit sensitive, that’s their biology and also the situation may different by culture as well.

Women should work in functional analysis for software development, designing, website development, technical document writer, tester, training, database programming (SQL), mobile application development or business software consulting etc.

Do you agree?

So to make sure if my assumption could be right or wrong, let share your idea on this matter in the comment and vote on the survey below:

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