Does this mean that all of our DEI efforts go down the drain for the last few years if we have females leaving tech with these layoffs and not coming back?

It's something that's very important and that we should be focused on.

The ongoing layoffs across the tech industry are impacting women at a disproportionately higher rate than men,

representing a possible setback for the industry's efforts to improve its gender diversity.

That's according to research conducted by talent intelligence platform 8-fold AI.

I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. I spoke about the

findings recently with Sonia Khan of Eightfold AI. I'm the chief economist at Eightfold AI. I lead our

newly created think tank where all of our research on labor markets and the economy and jobs comes out. So we look at what's

going on in the economy, what's going on in the labor market specifically, and how does that

relate to talent and what insights can we find for HR and business leaders. Your background is

really fascinating. You spent almost 10 years at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It's an interesting career transition, but one that actually kind of makes sense when you think

about it.

So at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I was really looking deep down into the statistics of the labor

markets, like how are people moving? What's the

unemployment rate? What are the trends that we're really looking at? And then now that I'm

here at Eightfold, I'm actually using all of that knowledge and statistics to inform everyone

about what we're about to see and what we're likely to see.

And what do these numbers really mean in the context of the business world?

I know from reading some of the work that you've done and the comments that you've made,

that you've found a disproportionate number of women being impacted by the waves of tech layoffs that we've

seen over the past few weeks and months. Can you tell us more about what you've seen and what you've

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