How to get more women and minorities into IT

December 07, 2000, 3:48 PM — Information technology continues to offer numerous job opportunities; despite a
leveling off in the dot-com sector, the demand for talent is greater than the supply.
The law of supply and demand would seem to dictate that women and minorities, who have
traditionally been shut out of the highest-paying careers, would be a larger part of
the information economy. However, to paraphrase the advertising clich