You may seem like you been reading about diversity in tech, that is because there is still not enough diversity in tech! Companies such as HP, IBM, Facebook, and Apple have increased on their gender diversity. HP and IBM have been had a reasonable gender diversity. Both Facebook and Apple have increased 31 percent of their employees are women now. These companies say hiring a new head of diversity is a way to change things and are hiring more minority groups.

White men are still dominating the college computer science departments by a lot! White men dominate by at least 30K, where at black men are just be below 5k, and as for black women, it is around 2k. A reason for this may be how the way companies try to recruit talents. Since these are male-dominated industries these companies tend to be sexist when it comes to recruiting females, they typically want men and use masculine language that does not appeal to women. As a woman that is trying to get into the tech industry, I think it is ridiculous how men will think their “masculine language” does not appeal to women. Us women can do anything a man can do if we put our minds to it. For instance, IBM had its first female VP in the 1940s.

Today more women than men earn college degrees, even though the number of women that are studying computer science is falling. This has always been a problem since the 1970s, that when typing stopped being considered as a course for computer science and women were majoring in it because it was something, they were expected to be very good at. Nowadays there are more women that are studying STEM majors but not a lot are choosing computer science. Most women in STEM are making about $16,000 less than males and if you are a black or Hispanic you can be making $14,000 less than your white coworkers. The wage parity is very unfair especially if you are women of color or just women in general. It is awesome that companies are striving to diversify their workforces, let us hope they focus on wage parity as well.