The Association for Computing Machinery recently elected its first all-female leadership team, an unusual move in the male-dominated technology industry.

Women currently make up 57 percent of the U.S. workforce but account for only about a quarter of tech jobs at tech firms, according to industry news site Recode. Women also earn, on average, 85 percent of what men do in the same tech jobs. http://on.recode.net/1TZHYtp

While noting that its top officers would all be women for the first time, ACM didn't dwell on the fact in an announcement about the appointments. President-elect Vicki Hanson, a professor of computing at Rochester Institute of Technology, instead focused on a problem facing many associations and professional societies: How to get young people involved in the organization.

"Young people coming of age today are surrounded by readily available content and have increasingly fluid careers," Hanson said. She added that ACM plans to establish a young professionals advisory board in the near future.

Other ACM officers include Vice President Cherri Pancake, a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University; and Secretary/Treasurer Elizabeth Churchill, director of user experience at Google.

ACM is a $67 million-revenue professional society based in New York City. http://bit.ly/1TZJ88h

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