Opinion: Tech’s glass ceiling: Black women face bias and job losses Although the tech industry is often held up as a place where the best talent and ideas are rewarded, the reality is very different for women of colour.
Although the tech industry is often held up as a place where the best talent and ideas are rewarded, the reality is very different for women of colour. This needs to change say Ben Musgrave and Olivia Banton
Twitter laid off significantly more women than they did men, and this trend has been seen in many other organisations. And according to research done by Layoffs.FYI and reported in Fast Company magazine the figures are bleaker when women also belong to minority ethnic groups. Initiatives such as Girls Who Code provide further support to young women who are looking to establish a career in this field. The number of women working for Tech Giants such as Apple has also increased. In 2021, 35% of Apple employees across their global workforce were women, up from 30% in 2014.
In addition to facing bias when applying for jobs, women are also subject to various kinds of discrimination once they are hired. They are judged more harshly than men for the same behaviours, which are often overlooked or downplayed if the person in question is male. And women are frequently the subject of “gender policing”, which limits their opportunities to climb the ladder.
Analysis from Eightfold.ai found that women working in a technological field were 65% more likely, on average, to be made redundant compared with their male counterparts. An example of this can be seen in the recent mass lay-offs by Twitter.
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