Women make up only 23% of those serving in development and cyber positions in the IDF, 30.7% of students in universities in high-tech professions and 16.5% of the partners in investment bodies in Israel, according to an integrative report by the Innovation Authority The Israeli.
According to the report, only 9.4% of the start-up companies were established by entrepreneurs, and in 57% of the large and active venture capital funds in Israel in recent years, no woman has been appointed a partner.
The data also show that the number of female students in high-tech professions increased by 64% within a decade, from 8,686 female students in the years 2011-2010 to 14,211 in 2020-2019.
However, they still make up less than a third of all students.
Another significant statistic shows that a third of the workers in the high-tech industry are women, and only 22.6% in senior management avenues are managers.
Lack of principals
The proportion of women employed in high-tech is almost unchanged and remains at about a third of the employees in this industry for at least three decades.
23% of companies have only one woman in management positions, and 79% of companies have a maximum of three women on management.
In addition, 6.2% of the women who are members of the management serve as the directors of the companies or their presidencies.
The Innovation Authority's report also shows that women head less than 10% of the startups established in the last decade. The proportion of women who founded and managed startups during this period stands at 9.4%, representing 819 CEOs.
It should be noted that the gap starts as early as high school, as only 35% of those who approach the five-unit matriculation in computer science are female students.
As for women's entrepreneurship in Israel, our situation is bad compared to the US. In Silicon Valley the proportion of women is 12.9%, in Boston - 12.8%, and in New York a higher rate of 16.8%. In the growing startup scene in Europe, women make up 10.8% of all startup entrepreneurs The entrepreneurship rate is 13%, in Paris - 9%, in Berlin - 10.2%, and in Stockholm - 12.9%.
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In a conversation with Israel Today, Dror Innovation, CEO of the Innovation Authority, said that "the participation rate of women in high-tech in Israel and the capital they manage to raise are also low compared to the rest of the world."
"The situation will get better"
On the large gap that still exists in 2022 between women and men in this field, Bin said: "In my eyes it is terrible. I read the report after the team prepared it and my stomach turned.
The purpose of the report is to put a full force on the business and government bodies to produce change. And there is also the responsibility of the women themselves. They should be willing to pay the price of working in the high-tech industry. About the investment. These are insane working hours and a lot of time abroad.
However, among also optimistic.
According to him, the situation "will improve because the trend in Israeli society is to close gaps. There is improvement in all parameters, but the pace is slow. In the US the situation is better and Israel always follows what is happening in the US. I am optimistic. I think things will improve. But I do not think it is happening fast enough. "
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