There Aren't Many Black Women In The Tech Industry.. Here's Why

There Aren't Many Black Women In The Tech Industry.. Here's Why

Welcome back to Tech Splash, today on the channel we are going to talk about Black women missing from tech industry + Diversity in tech: What it means and how to get there. Up to 20,000 black women are "missing" from the tech industry in the UK, according to a joint report by campaigners and a representative body. The report says the proportion of black women in IT is two-and-a-half times smaller than that of the UK workforce as a whole. Campaigning group Coding Black Females said tech "desperately needed" more people from a range of backgrounds. Industry bodies acknowledge that "more must be done" to support diversity.

Analyzing data from the Office of National Statistics, the authors of the Coding Black Females (CBF) and BCS report found that black women made up 1.8% of the UK workforce but only 0.7% of those working in technology. An extra 20,000 black women would need to be recruited in addition to the 12,000 already working in IT to fill the gap. Women are also under-represented in senior leadership roles, it said. In 2021, just 17% of IT directors were female, according to the report. The report says while ethnic-minority representation in general is higher among IT specialists than in the wider workforce, that is largely due to the high proportion of tech professionals of Indian ethnicity. Diversity in tech: What it means and how to get there. Two organizations that help businesses with diversity introduced this heritage and history observance in 2004. They aimed to create an observance celebrating and honoring the diversity that's fundamental to America. The focus on diversity is sometimes combined with equity and inclusion, or DEI for short. Diversity is about recognizing and celebrating differences. Equity focuses on providing pathways to equal access. Inclusion focuses on making people feel accepted, valued, and empowered to be their full selves at work. Stay tuned for more on Black women missing from tech industry + Diversity in tech: What it means and how to get there.

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[dexhazedmv]

They wanna do hair and nails. Busy looking pretty for Noone but another woman.

[johnnyBrwn]

I don't have a problem with this topic. My problem is, why just focus on black women? Black women are literally the most powerful People of Color in the US next to Asian (Chinese/Japanese) men. There are BILLIONs spent on getting them to highest exec roles in the US. I am a black man. Our culture is a matriarch. They subjugate us. They are the only matriarch in the west - very powerful. You should do a video in increasing diversity in tech for TRULY underrepresented people : Non- Chinese/Japanese men, and non-black women.