Editor's Note: The chapter, "Making Everyone Visible in Tech" is included in Epic Failures in DevSecOps, Volume 2, which is available for free download.
Interview with Jaclyn Damiano, with host Justin Miller.
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The research supports this: Ryan Carson, CEO of Treehouse, says: “Most companies have a significant challenge recruiting and retaining a diverse set of employees, particularly women in technology. For our team to match the diversity of America, we’d need 13.4% Black, 1.3% Native American, 18.1% Latinx, and 50% women employees. “ Today, 7% of the high tech sector workforce is Black, and 8% is Hispanic. Depending on what source you read, between 20-36% of the high tech sector is female. Most research also states only 18% of engineering graduates are female. The problem intensifies as you look up the hierarchy. In the U.S. top 1,000 companies by revenue, only 19% of CIOs are women.
Those of us who work in tech need only to look around during a meeting to be confronted with an all-too-real illustration of these numbers. Sometimes I look around an office building and check out the conference rooms. Who is sitting around the table? If I see only men, I have an odd compulsion to run into the room screaming “Wait, you’re missing a gender!” Gender is only the beginning of what it means to have a diverse team.