Women In STEM & Cybersecurity

One troubling element of this shortage is that the gap could be substantially closed if one segment of the population were proportionately represented in the industry — women. In 2013, a study by Frost and Sullivan stated that women represented just 11 percent of the worldwide cybersecurity workforce. It’s not just cybersecurity jobs that are being filled primarily by men. Most STEM professions are still suffering from a lack of women in their ranks, even after decades of equal gender rights initiatives.