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Report Warns It Will Take Nearly 300 Years to Reach Gender Parity in Tech
There is a gulf between what employers are saying and doing to make their workforces more diverse.
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On current trends, it will take 283 years to reach gender parity in the tech workforce, according to the 2023 Diversity Report from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
Tech companies are promoting their diversity and inclusion programs enthusiastically and publicly. But all the noise is drowning out the reality, which is that next to nothing has changed. In fact, judging by Harnham's Data & Analytics Diversity Report, in terms of representation at entry level positions in areas such as the data industry, women are going backwards.
What the tech sector has got much better at is cloaking the reality in endless talk of diversity and inclusion initiatives, and of promoting their credentials as diverse and inclusive employers. What they aren't doing is employing or promoting any more women. It's diversity as marketing.
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