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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any thoughts on web design/development?[/quote]

I work in IT, and see a lot of women in project management. On the technical side, there are a lot of women work as database administrators, then move on to become data architects. A good DBA is always in high demand.

I also see older women in web/UX design. They know the underlying technology, understand human-computer interaction, and they are good speakers.

As for web/software development, it is a young person's game, but you can move on to become an architect, eventually an enterprise architect for a non-technology firm.

I am in my 50s and work in a niche technical area (web/application performance tuning and management). I get recruiting calls all the time and only work for repeating clients now. In my last full time job, I tried very hard to fill positions on the performance team, and could not find decent performance engineers (most candidates were not even good performance testers). I ended up picking a couple of smart developers to train. Of course, with the DevOps trend, the startups don't need, nor could afford a performance engineer. However bigger firms, even tech firms like Google, Facebook, NetFlix.... all need performance engineers.

I see the same kind of high demand with other technical areas such as security, devops/configuration management, Database administration... the common thread is problem solving. Women are good problem solvers. 
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