Few women in tech. Even fewer at the top


Considering the opportunities it offers and the talents it already lacks, women are too few in tech. In the field, female professionals comprise less than a third of the world's workforce (World Bank), hold 28% of computer and mathematical occupations and do not even reach 16% in engineering and architecture jobs. In the United States, where STEM occupations represent 23% of the total labour force, women are 35% (National Science Foundation.) Their presence doesn't spike even in the "big 5" (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft), reaching, in 2020, only 31% of the employees. Albeit in the next few years, the...