Below find data and information regarding the gender gap that currently exists in the technology industry.
* The National Association of Women in Technology reported:
* These are key findings from the Jan. 2015 study conducted by the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings, which consisted of a survey of 557 women in STEM and interviews of 60 women of color in science, technology, engineering, and math:
* Key findings by the Center for Talent Innovation report (CNN, 2014):
* An international study of tests and surveys of gender equality in schools by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in March 2015, found that girls lacked self-confidence in their ability to solve math and science problems and achieved worse results, despite outperforming boys. (Guardian, March 2015)
* The National Association of Women in Technology reported:
- 26% of the computing workforce in 2013 were women- 5% Asian women, 3% African American women, and 2% Hispanic women
- 64% decline in the number of first-year undergraduate women interested in majoring in Computer Science between 2000 and 2012
- Quit rates for women in Science (
* These are key findings from the Jan. 2015 study conducted by the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings, which consisted of a survey of 557 women in STEM and interviews of 60 women of color in science, technology, engineering, and math:
- 100% of the women interviewed reported gender bias.
- Black women are more likely (77%) than other women (66%) to report having to prove themselves over again.
- Latinas report being pressured by colleagues to do admin support work for their male colleagues, such as organizing meetings and filling out forms.
- Both Latinas and Black women report regularly being mistaken as janitors.
* Key findings by the Center for Talent Innovation report (CNN, 2014):
- Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) quit rates versus men: US- 45%, Brazil- 29%, China- 50%
- The reasons include:
- Isolation. They still feel excluded from buddy networks and lack female role models
- Bias in training and performance evaluation. 72% of women in the U.S., 78% in Brazil, 68% in China, 81% in India perceive bias in performance evaluations.
- Struggles to conform to biased standards of executive presence. SET women struggle to decipher and embody leadership attributes, and receive little useful feedback to correct this perception.
- 44% of women in the U.S., 33% in Brazil, 57% in China and 66% in India list behaving like a man as an advantage to becoming a leader in SET fields.
* An international study of tests and surveys of gender equality in schools by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in March 2015, found that girls lacked self-confidence in their ability to solve math and science problems and achieved worse results, despite outperforming boys. (Guardian, March 2015)