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Gender gap in technology: a market in which there are still five men for every woman

2023-02-12T10:57:48.022Z


Although progress is slow, more and more companies are hiring and value gender and diversity. Is a reality. Although more and more women are encouraged to take the plunge in a market historically dominated by men such as technology, they continue to be a minority. While in our country six out of ten university students are women , in applied sciences and programming they barely reach 15% . Worldwide, the figure is similar: currently there are only 18% of women in computer science at an e


Is a reality.

Although more and more women are encouraged to take the plunge in

a market historically dominated by men

such as technology, they continue to be a minority.

While in our country

six out of ten university students are women

, in applied sciences and programming

they barely reach 15%

.

Worldwide, the figure is similar: currently there are only 18% of women in computer science at an educational level, and 31% in the professional market.

And in Latin America, the gender gap does not seem very different:

58% of the people who complete their bachelor's and master's studies are women

, but the percentage of graduates is reduced to 20% in engineering careers and 32% in related professions. with information and communication technologies.

According to data from Argencon, in 2021 the percentage of professional women in companies in the knowledge industry exceeded 50%, but

in the technological area it only reached 24.5%.

something is

changing


However, there are situations that begin to move.

The statistics are bad, to be sure, but

many tech companies hire women

, put them on a level playing field, and create value.

“Honestly, for me the contribution is the same that anyone who wants to join a project can make.

What weighs is the talent of each one, which has no gender, the value that each one gives to work, this has to do with people and the relationship with their vocation”, explains Mar Gestoso, Head of

Talent and Culture de Paisanos

, an Argentine company that uses technology to generate experiences and connect startups and large companies with their clients through the development of digital products, and that already has its entire team divided between women and men.

Gestoso, head of Talent and Culture of Countrymen

Gestoso affirms that, without a doubt, it is a decision that the company makes, in this case in the role of its co-founder, Santiago Echazú, very young and with an open mind.

“There are many people who break the paradigms and who are in those places that are where we want to go,

there are a lot of women in technology today, although perhaps they are not as much in the networks or they do not have as much visibility.

What you have to do is go out and look for this change from the companies.

We do not open a search only for women, we open searches and go looking for women because we want to work with that aspect of diversity within the company”, explains Gestoso.

For her part, Florencia Trotta, from

Nimble Giant

, a video game developer, says that

"women provide the other perspective

, the one that for a long time was scarce in the industry and that contributes to inclusive construction."

As she explains,

the idea is to travel the path towards parity

, with the benefits adding all the potential and abilities that women and non-binary people have.

The Nimble Giant Girls

And, then, why still this lag?

Marina G. Alvarez, head of

Americas Diversity

at NTT DATA Europe and LATAM, believes that “one of the main factors is focused on

the choice that women make at the end of their degree training

.

Local studies reveal that the volume of enrollments of women in university courses far exceeds that of men, but, when analyzing the chosen field of specialization, the male/female ratio in the choice of STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) a significant drop is evident:

a relationship close to five men for each woman

”.

So, perhaps the women, unlike the Paisanos executive, for example, do not believe that there are opportunities for them as well.

Nicolás Kneler, Microverse

's operations manager

for Latin America, agrees that

inequality in education is one of the reasons for the imbalance

.

But

the new modality of remote work

allows women who choose to be mothers to carry out their tasks from home and achieve a balance between professional and family life, and even gives them

the possibility of internationalizing

.

“The great job offer in the sector, which year after year generates thousands of new vacancies in the country and in the world, is also a powerful attraction,” says Kneler.

In addition to these Argentine companies that do bet on women, the emergence of groups such as

"Girls Programmers" and

"Girls in Technology" was also promoted, which seek to form

a support network, helping women to train and enter the labor market.

that until a few years ago was elusive.

Third edition of "Programming a better world", organized by Girls in Technology

The same scenario is replicated worldwide, where despite the growth in the percentage of technological jobs held by women, and the inclusion policies promoted by the large companies in the market,

there are still gaps to be closed, salary being one of the most important.

“Empathy is also usually more related to women, but for me it shouldn't happen.

The values ​​should be universal values ​​-concludes Gestoso-.

And society would have to take care of them on a historical level for

all people equally

”.

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Source: clarin

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