Brianna White

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Most of us have heard the statistics: only 25% of professional computing occupations in the U.S. are held by women, and women hold just 28% of STEM jobs in general. The latter is a number that’s gotten increasing attention in recent years; it’s also a number that’s hardly budged for decades.
While women make up 47% of the U.S. labor force as a whole, they are vastly underrepresented in technology—a growing industry representing 10% of the national economy and offering nearly double the national median wage. In other words, the above statistics represent a lost opportunity for thousands of women.
As an industry of change, technology also has a huge impact on most people’s day-to-day lives. When the people making the decisions and building the products are mostly men, it isn't just women working in the industry who lose out—it's women at large.
So what’s going on here? And what can be done about it? I sat down with three female tech leaders: Emily Yale, a senior data scientist at Shape Security; Lekisha Middleton, a career coach and community manager at Tech Ladies; and Sheekha Singh, a quality assurance engineer at Artisan Studios and the author of “The IT Girl: 3 Steps to Find Career Options for Women in Tech.” We discussed some of the key problems in the tech industry today and what can be done to solve them.
Continue reading: https://www.techopedia.com/5-key-things-holding-women-in-tech-back-and-what-can-be-done/2/34650
 

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