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How gender-balanced are the big tech players in the world today?
The dearth of women in the explosive, big-money world of technology has been the focus of industry watchers for years now. The environment for females in tech is such that it’s considered news if women report actually being treated fairly. (Apple Tops (Short) List Of Tech Companies Where Women Report Equal Treatment)
The dearth of women in the explosive, big-money world of technology has been the focus of industry watchers for years now. The environment for females in tech is such that it’s considered news if women report actually being treated fairly. (Apple Tops (Short) List Of Tech Companies Where Women Report Equal Treatment)
Are things heading in the right direction? Is the disparity between men and women in the tech world evening out? Startups aside, how gender-balanced are some of the big tech players in the world today? How many women are there in the workforces of companies like Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook or Intel?
It appears we actually may have an answer to that last query, calculated by an impartial third-party.
Career info company, PayScale, recently released a side-by-side comparison report of 18 household-name tech companies using data obtained from 33,500 non-retail or sales workers in the tech industry over the past two years. The data PayScale compiled unveiled the various ways these firms treat and inspire their people, giving insight on salary, diversity, stress and job satisfaction. (: Top Tech Companies Compared On Salary, Stress, Gender And World Impact.)
One area the company analyzed was gender. Specifically, what percentage of employees are women. We took PayScale’s data and zeroed in on the man-to-woman ration of each firm, building a slideshow to rank each company in order of diversity. Check it out above!
In gauging the percentages of women working at those firms, PayScale used data self-reported by each company. If not not publicly available IBM, Tesla and SpaceX did not report gender data it used data based on the sample used to calculate other figures in the report from employees.
In the case of Amazon, Payscale reported gender statistics based on the compensation profiles filled out by company employees over the past two years as Amazon’s self-reported figures include a large percentage of labor employees, such as warehouse workers.
In the United States where each company PayScale analyzed is based the gender breakdown shows a majority of women by a ratio of 50.8% to 49.2%, according to 2010 census data. The majority of these large technology players do not come close to that figure in their own gender makeup. Why that is and whether it will improve and how fast represents another series of debates and analysis.
Source: techgig.com
