No, it's not the Doc having fun while waiting for spring but the European Commission found that the IT sector had a shortfall of 300,000 IT professionals across Europe by 2010. Dropping by 3% from 1998, there were only 22% female graduates in 2006 (USA: 28%). Possible reasons would be the "geek" stigma of IT jobs and women who left work for having children. Very interesting is the discovery of women preferring management courses over technical courses (that are mostly taken by men). I think they got it. IT is getting uncool. (Source)