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A number of recent studies tell a pretty dismal story of gender imbalance in the tech sector. For some hard figures, a recent survey of 1500 women working in tech, conducted by Women in Tech<\/a>, found that only 1 in 6 tech specialists are women, and sadly only 1 in 10 women are IT leaders. Accenture and Girls who Code<\/a>, found that 50% of women leave the tech sector at a rate of 45% higher than men, with 50% leaving their tech career by the age of 35 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UK, 19% of women are employed in tech jobs, despite women making up 49% of the overall workforce in the country, Tech Nation data<\/a> shows. \u2018Lack of tech diversity<\/a>\u2019 has been a raised issue, putting into the agenda of career market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A number of recent studies tell a pretty dismal story of gender imbalance in the tech sector. For some hard figures, a recent survey of 1500 women working in tech, conducted by Women in Tech, found that only 1 in 6 tech specialists are women, and sadly only 1 in 10 women are IT leaders. Accenture and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disruptivetech","tag-women-in-tech"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy aren\u2019t there more women in tech?\u00a0 | Disruptive Technologies Cluster | University of Salford<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/sbs-disruptive-technologies\/2022\/03\/10\/why-arent-there-more-women-in-tech\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why aren\u2019t there more women in tech?\u00a0 | Disruptive Technologies Cluster | University of Salford\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A number of recent studies tell a pretty dismal story of gender imbalance in the tech sector. 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