Why Are So Few Women in Tech Leadership?
From Newsweek:
Reaching equitable gender representation has remained an elusive challenge in the tech world. Despite decades of promises to make the world a better place and democratize opportunity, the tech establishment and its investors have not delivered.
Just 3 percent of venture capital investment in 2024 went to solely women-owned businesses, and just 26 percent of the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index CTO or CIO positions are held by women, according to a 2024 analysis by Russell Reynolds Associates.
"The main issue, I think, is unconscious bias," Francine Gordon, management professor at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, told Newsweek. "I think that has a lot to do with why women in tech tend to leave. ... They don't see upward mobility, and a lot of that is because of unconscious bias."