A lot of women get into technology early on, receive a good education, and stay in the workforce throughout most of their lives. Technology industry is growing, with more opportunities for skilled dedicated professionals available now than ever before. However, the number of women in Tech has decreased over time. What is stopping more women from joining and staying in the field?

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The data is crowd-sourced from established companies and start-
ups such as Mozilla, Yelp, Etsy, Foursquare, Redfin, Airbnb and
more. Research by Tracy Chou.
https://github.com/triketora/women-in-software-eng

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The share of
women in
computer
science started
falling at roughly
the same
moment when
personal
computers
started showing
up in U.S.
homes.

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%women
Overall Leadership Technology
Goals for 2016:
Women overall: 35%
Women in tech: 16%
Women in leadership: 25%
Underrepresented minorities
overall:11%*
Underrepresented minorities in
tech: 9%*
Underrepresented minorities in
leadership: 6%*

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The Department of Labor states
that 56% of business jobs are
women, and 36% of physician
jobs are held by women.
Only 12% of engineers are
women.

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