Key Reasons for Majority Females to be QA Engineers or BA in Sri Lankan Software Industry

Being in the Sri Lankan Software Industry for more than 20 years, this topic was something very obvious. Then I proposed this as a research topic to one of my students and were able to conduct research on this. 

In this research, we target two groups. Females in QA/BA professionals and Females in Developer professionals. 

Ideally, we should have collected data from male professional, but could not process due to the time limitations. 

We considered different qualifications of Professionals, experience, and other demographic details such as age, marital status etc. Further, we considered different project types and different scales of projects in different companies. 

We used Azure Machine Learning and by evaluating multiple classification techniques, Two-Class SVM is the best model. The following figure shows the accuracies for each model. We could have evaluated other evaluation parameters such as F1, MCC 

You might be much interested in the outcome of this research rather than the methodology. 

1. In most of the professions, they were told that QA/BA jobs are much suited for females 
2. Most of the females professional under the impression that QA/BA jobs are lesser stress than developer jobs.
3. They assume that they can attend to their family matters being in the QA/BA jobs. 
4. Few of the females professional believes that software development is too technical for females. 
5. Developers needs long hours of work which is not cultural for females in Sri Lankan context. 

These are surveys data. you may have different ideas. Let me know your thoughts on this.