Data Mining & Analysis

Women In Data Science

With an increase in demand and growth in opportunities in fields of science, technology, engineering and math, women remain underrepresented in these fields. Women are good at communication, and promote a positive atmosphere among the team and are much dedicated in problem solving and decision making. But according to a report given by National Center for Women and Information Technology, number of women in computing occupations has been declining steadily, but the growing awareness is slowly bringing more women into the field. As per a report, women's involvement in information technology patenting has significantly increased from 1.7% in 1980 to 7.8% in 2010. In 2014, 25% of chief data officers were women, whose responsibility is to manage company's data by developing a data governance structure and leverage the data. One in four data scientists are women and they hold only 26% of all data professional positions as per a survey