Why We Need More Women In Technology

Posted: November 3, 2014 at 2:44 pm

We need more women in technology. In 2012, women made up only 26 percent of the computing workforce, out of 3,816,000 computing-related occupations. (Department of Labor Current Population Survey, 2012)

In the same year, only 18 percent of computer science majors were women.

Women hold only 11 percent of executive technical roles at privately held, venture-backed companies. (Dow Jones VentureSource, 2012)

Only 7 percent of venture capital goes to women-owned businesses, and of those venture capitalists investing in startups, only 4.2 percent are women.

These and other telling statistics are indicative of a huge problem!

Its time for a shift

I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with some of the most inspiring, ambitious female leaders of our time.

I want to devote this blog to them.

Women are primed to lead in this new era of innovation.

Im proud that each years Singularity University Graduate program has some 40 percent women attendees.

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Why We Need More Women In Technology

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