...computing professionals left the IT industry between 2001 and 2007. According to data from IT-sector skills council e-skillsUK, there were 229,440 women working in IT 33 percent of the UK's computing profession in 2001. By 2007, that figure...
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39554838,00.htm
...it comes to the 'fairer sex'. Sector skills body e-skillsUK says only around one in five of the IT workforce is female...the lack of women in IT is the tech skills crisis - e-skillsUK has warned more than 140,000 new IT & telecoms recruits...
http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39355303,00.htm