It
is an established fact that lack of diversity assails the tech
industry as shown by the workforce
diversity data
of big tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple, who are now
seriously bent on improving the diversity makeup of their workforces
and corporate boards. Recent data from those companies and others
like them confirm what everyone has long known: Most of their
employees are white and Asian men. Among technical employees, few are
women, and even fewer are Latino or African-American as earlier
reported. Read
more here
However,
a new study shows why there is lack of gender diversity in the field,
and that only few women stay long in diversity
It jobs,
and not many are in a diversity
executive job, and
it is not about their education.
A
Fortune article reports that a
new study conducted by Catalyst shows that plenty of women are
graduating with technical degrees – they just don’t want to work
in the tech industry. Looking specifically at the gender divide in
business roles within the tech industry, the nonprofit found that
while 75% of MBA grads have a tech background, only 36% return to
tech-intensive industries — like oil and gas or energy – after
completing their MBA. Women MBAs are less likely than men to enter
these industries to start, and they are more likely to leave
tech-intensive industries quickly. “We
found that no matter the job, these companies are a particular
difficult place for women to work in,” said Catalyst’s research
director and the study’s author Anna Beninger. Read
more at
Thus,
there is indeed a great need to be proactive in addressing this
issue, and based on the Catalyst
report,
these are their recommendations on
how companies
can reverse these trends by attracting and retaining top female
talent in business roles and becoming employers of choice for women:
- Make sure men and women with equivalent credentials start out at equal levels, and a re paid equally and at a competitive rate with others in the industry.
- Engage and empower senior male executives to sponsor up-and-coming women.
- Make performance standards crystal clear.
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