Interest in computers/technology/data is one thing.

Interest in working in the work environments of IT is another thing quite different. The attitudes and macho-ism is daunting, not to mention that perennial, the rise thru positions, helpdesk is fine for females bit like receptionists but reach further and find the tide is always going out.

It is also thought with IT folk, give them the workspace no other department wants, no ventilation, no light coz we all so different from the rest that a monitor and computer is all we want from life. There's the business and then there's IT prevalent attitudes, girls don't buy into this.