{"id":50664,"date":"2022-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/5-key-things-holding-women-in-tech-back-and-what-can-be-done\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:21:44","slug":"5-key-things-holding-women-in-tech-back-and-what-can-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/5-key-things-holding-women-in-tech-back-and-what-can-be-done\/2\/34650","title":{"rendered":"5 Key Things Holding Women in Tech Back – and What Can Be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us have heard the statistics: only 25% of professional computing occupations in the U.S. are held by women<\/a>, and women hold just 28% of STEM jobs<\/a> in general. The latter is a number that\u2019s gotten increasing attention in recent years; it\u2019s also a number that\u2019s hardly budged for decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While women make up 47% of the U.S. labor force<\/a> as a whole, they are vastly underrepresented in technology\u2014a growing industry representing 10% of the national economy and offering nearly double the national median wage<\/a>. In other words, the above statistics represent a lost opportunity for thousands of women. <\/p>\n

As an industry of change, technology also has a huge impact on most people\u2019s 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\u2014it’s women at large.<\/p>\n

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As an industry of change, technology also has a huge impact on most people\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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