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STEM and workplace appeal would boost women in US tech

Content type:: Expert Briefings
Location:: UNITED STATES
Keywords associated with this article:: Geographic: United States NA International

Topical: industry social computers education gender internet policy science technology
ISSN:: 2633-304X
Citation:: Oxford Analytica (2020), "STEM and workplace appeal would boost women in US tech", Expert Briefings.
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB250929

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Subject

Women in tech.

Significance

Despite professed intent by US technology companies to increase the diversity of their workforces, women are still a minority.

Impacts

Underemployment in tech will disproportionately limit women's opportunities in one of the best-paid sectors of future jobs.
Qualified women opting for jobs outside the tech sector risks hurting industry competitiveness.
Computer sciences and engineering workplaces will keeping losing women to biological, environmental, chemical and material sciences.

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