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Women are making gains in booming tech-consulting market
2013-04-15 22:08:16| InfoWorld: Top News
While the average unemployment rate for technology professionals is a mere 3.5 percent -- significantly lower than the national average of 7.7 percent -- the rates vary by job function. Among Web developers, it's just 1.0 percent, whereas programmers will see a rate of around 6.3 percent. Meanwhile, there's been a surge in technology-consulting positions, and women are grabbing a relatively high number of those new jobs.
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