QualiTest found that globally, the software testing community is split 66% male and 34% female. The differences between the countries with the most female testers, and those with the least, are substantial. QualiTest found interesting results when analyzing Chinese software testers. Even though LinkedIn shows 1,700,000 female testers and 1,400,000 male testers in China, the total number of software testers in China jumps to 34,000,000 once gender specification is removed. While some people may leave the field blank for a variety of reasons, over 90% of China’s workforce currently lacks LinkedIn gender detail (for China’s software testers, the ratio is closer to 63% unspecified). Gender ratios are calculated below by dividing female by (male + female), ignoring the unlisted gender segment in the denominator.
And the Winner Is...
China has the highest percentage of female testers at 42%, and the U.K. has the smallest percentage at 28%. After Poland, the countries with the most testers (Australia and the Philippines) have only 5,000. As LinkedIn rounds down to the nearest thousand, those countries lose statistical significance for this breakdown and therefore will not be displayed here. The countries with largest female to male ratios, in order, are China, India, the U.S., Poland, Canada, and the U.K. The percentages in these countries, respectively, are 42%, 36.5%, 34.8%, 33%, 30%, 28%.
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