Women Make Gains in State Tech

I've just completed an initial update of the state technology officials for Governing's Sourcebook and the results show that slowly more women are moving into high-ranking tech positions. Of the more than 250 tech officials listed this year, 25.7% are women.

That figure might not sound too impressive, but it does represent a smaller gender gap than five years ago. In the 2001 Sourcebook, 21.5% of the tech officials were women. It also compares favorably to most top elected offices, although I'd guess women make up a bigger share of other types of appointed positions.

In two states in particular, women hold lots of top tech positions: Pennsylvania and Virginia.