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Women in Tech
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Women in Tech

by Gillian Arnold, Hannah Dee, Clem Herman, Sharon Moore, Andrea Palmer, Shilpa Shah
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
8h 40m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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7 RETAINING AND PROGRESSING WOMEN WITHIN THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

Sharon Moore

Efforts to increase the number of women in technology careers have been made for years; despite this, women exit the technology industry at a faster rate than men. According to Harvard Business Review, ‘In the US, women working in SET [science, engineering, and technology] fields are 45% more likely than their male peers to leave the industry within the year’ (Hewlett, 2014). Furthermore, women leave science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields not only at greater rates than men but also more than women in other industries (Glass et al., 2013). This does not suggest that the aforementioned efforts have been in vain; indeed, one can imagine how much ...

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