Women are still under-represented in the IT sector: only 10-15% of those working in the technology sector are women, while there are many positions that offer excellent opportunities for them, as well.
"There are still many stereotypes in this field, from school education to career choices to attitudes in the workplace,"
said Edith Kalocsai, lead project manager from INSPYRE Informatics.
The proportion of female students is low in so-called STEM subjects - such as IT - as compared to the workforce.
According to Eurostat, the EU average is 17.7 percent. The same figure in the UK is 17 percent, and 25 percent in the US - there however only 19 percent of computer science degrees are awarded to women.
We need to note here that educational institutes and high schools still lack the discussion of these professions in educational institutions during orientation, and in many secondary schools the prevailing view is still that those who are good at maths should be engineers and those who are good at humanities should be lawyers.
"A lot of people identify IT with hardcore development, when in fact IT is a much bigger field. There are a lot of positions in IT that don't require, for example, algorithm theory - things that have traditionally scared the masses away from this field,"
says Edith Kalocsai.
However there are a remarkable amount of positions that are fully part of IT, without which the industry could not function, - yet are under-represented in the public discourse - like UX researcher, project manager, IT project account director, graphic designer, tech documentation specialist, tester or even site builder.
"The market offers plenty of opportunities.
In fact, the success of a digital product is never a single development success, but the success of all parts of the process, and it doesn't start and does not nearly end at the development stage.
Joint success depends both on whether a UX researcher can provide the right answers to user feedback, or whether a quality assurance tester can ensure that the finished product works without fail on all devices and under all conditions.
These issues are not depending a specific gender of the employee, but on the contrary, they show that based on skills and individual strenghts everyone can find their place in an IT workflow"
she adds.