The Future of Women in Tech Careers: Should I Stay or Go?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: Women in technical roles are less likely than men to win promotions early in their careers, and many are exiting the field. Only 86 women are promoted to manager for every 100 men at the same level…in technical roles, only 52 women per 100 men. Diversity is crucial to help de-bias the technologies in our modern life. [McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace 2021 report, coauthored with LeanIn.org] The Buzz 2: The label 'woman in tech' seems redundant…how many women would refer to themselves as ‘a female engineer’ or ‘the company’s female CTO’? However, there still exists a disparity in the pay scales and ability to climb the career ladder between men and women in the technology sector. [codemotion.com] The Buzz 3: At current rates, it will take 100 years for women in technical and non-technical roles to reach parity with men at the C-level [Anita Borg Institute, ‘Advancing Women Technologists into Positions of Leadership’. [content.techgig.com] We’ll ask Lisa Dalesandro DiChristofer, Kylie Woods, Debbie Scott and Lori Rosano for their take on The Future of Women in Tech Careers: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, meet today's future, which is about to happen?
0:09.5	And tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away.
0:14.3	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:19.3	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:25.5	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:28.9	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:32.8	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:34.2	I think I got the right direction.
0:36.4	I never remember whether I say that's a past of the future, but we're here. Thank you. That's the voice of Ryan Treasure, formerly, with Voice America, who did my role in. I appreciate that. Ryan, always love hearing your voice and hope you're well. Let's get started here. I have four buzz quotes. Three of them are from the previous version. We did the show, similar topic a couple months ago, but I added a new one.
0:55.9	This is going to be a kicker.
0:56.8	So number one, I have a quote from McKinsey.com, and it is, women in technical roles are
1:01.7	less likely than men to win promotions early in their careers.
1:05.6	That's what we're talking about.
1:07.1	And many, guess what, are leaving the field.
1:11.0	Only 86 women are promoted to manager for every 100 men at the same level.
1:15.5	This is from McKinsey's Women in the Workplace, 2021 report.
1:18.5	I like to validate.
1:19.5	And that was co-authored with lean-in.org.
1:21.7	Isn't that interesting?
1:22.7	But in technical fields, only 52 women for every 100 men get promoted. That's about 50% not good. And they say
1:32.2	diversity is crucial to help debias the technologies in our modern life. Hey, we have a perspective.
1:37.9	It might be different from other genders. I'm going to leave that very wide open there. So we need
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