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title: "Tech Sector’s Gender Stats Show We Still Need to #BreakTheBias"
date: 2023-03-08T08:15:00-08:00
author: Ash Kreider
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section: Industry Intelligence
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    ## Data shows that women are greatly under-represented in technology.

In 2020, the World Economic Forum estimated it would take 100 years to close the​“global gender gap”. Only a year later, they revised that estimate to **136 years** – mostly due to setbacks experienced by women during COVID 19.

Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director and Head of the WEF’s Centre for the New Economy and Society wrote:​“The Covid-19 pandemic has raised new barriers to building inclusive and prosperous economies and societies. Pre-existing gender gaps have amplified the crisis asymmetrically between men and women”.

[Read the full blog post here](https://www.iqmetrix.com/blog/infographic-tech-sectors-gender-stats-show-we-still-need-to-breakthebias).

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