>We have 80% females in the marketing department and it is actually much larger than the IT department. Is that a problem that needs to be solved? It depends o

>We have 80% females in the marketing department and it is actually much larger than the IT department. Is that a problem that needs to be solved? It depends on whether it has been a consistent trend across the vast majority of marketing departments and companies, like it is wit software. Just like having one software company with 80% women is not a solution, having one company with 80% women in marketing is not a problem. 50% is a useful number because that's about the proportion of women in the world (did I really have to spell that out?).