Women at work

Women in Tech are Stalled: but why?

Posted on by kcleland
13
Sep

“Job rate for women in tech has hardly budged since 2005, EEOC finds”

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair urges companies not to pull back from efforts to promote workplace diversity and inclusion.

 
Women hold less than a quarter of high-tech jobs, while making up almost half of the U.S. workforce as a whole, according to a new government analysis. (iStock)
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The share of women in the high-tech industry has barely budged over the past two decades even as the number of lucrative jobs in the field has soared in that time, according to a new analysis from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/11/big-tech-women-minorities-jobs-dei-eeoc/

 

“The fact that we’ve had women’s participation in this industry stuck for the last 20 years is concerning enough, but certainly to have it go backward would be deeply, deeply troubling,” Burrows said. “I think, as this report shows, this is not a time to pull back on efforts to create more inclusive and equitable and diverse workplaces.”

 
 

The report also found that while overall racial diversity in the high-tech workforce increased from 26 percent in 2005 to 40.1 percent in 2022, Hispanic and Black workers remained significantly underrepresented in the field. Though they make up nearly one-fifth of the overall U.S. workforce, Hispanic workers made up only 9.9 percent of the high-tech workforce in 2022, compared with 5 percent in 2005. Black workers, meanwhile, made up just 7.4 percent of high-tech workers — a small increase from the 6 percent share in 2005.”

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