While a gender wage gap may be alive and kicking among technology workers, the pendulum swung in the opposite direction among executive-level IT professionals in 2006, according to the annual salary survey released on Jan. 24 by New York-based Dice, a career site for IT and engineering professionals. The report also noted a continued occurrence of gender salary gap in technology, where women earned on average 9.7 percent less than men in 2006. <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2087085,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL012507EOAD">This has narrowed slightly</A> from the year prior when the difference was 10.9 percent.