Why We Need More Women Of Color In Tech
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Dcember 18, 2019 From HuffPost
The technology industry has a long history of failing at finding, retaining and elevating women of color.
It’s easy to see how the needs of minority communities have been ignored, discriminated against and underrepresented in tech — largely because their presence is almost nonexistent in a field dominated primarily by white men.
After all, Black women hold 3%, Latinas hold 1% and Native American women hold just .03% of technology jobs, according to research from women’s advocacy groups. Similarly, though Asians have become the second-largest racial group of tech professionals, behind white people, research shows Asian women are less likely to become executives in Silicon Valley than their white peers.
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