Women in Tech: Data visualization with Tableau

Figure 1 is a line graph representation of the overall population of women in technology in popular tech companies such as Twitter and Google. The Graph shows overall an increase in the population of women in technology over the last four years.

Figure 2. Gender in tech comparison in popular tech companies

Figure 2 is a gender comparison by tech company. Overall we see that Males tend to be the majority population by gender in each company. Although, companies like Pandora, Pinterest, and Indiegogo are nearly equal.

References:

M. (2018, November 11). 2018/W46: Diversity in Tech – dataset by makeovermonday. Retrieved from https://data.world/makeovermonday/2018w46/workspace/file?filename=Employee Diversity in Tech.csv

Site structure: Women in Tech

Using the information that I gathered for my previous articles, women in tech articles, and blogs, i’ve created a rough sitemap.

As shown in figure 1, I am using a hierarchal site structure with major categories and sub categories. I chose this structure because many of the websites we use today use a hierarchal structure thus, the user would be more accustomed to the site. Sub categories can be accessed by hovering over relevant content in the navigation bar on the homepage. I’ll use the information in my data sets as pages that can be navigated by year showing trends for women in tech entering and exiting the industry. The site will also feature a navigation bar with main categories shown as questions for ease of use.

Organization Scheme

I’ll be using a topic based organization scheme for my project. This will allow the user to navigate the website based on relevant topics present in the navigation bar. This would make the overall site easier to use as each option is easily present and accessible.

Women in tech: A deep dive

Part 3: Data Sets

Before we think of a solution, let’s revisit some figures from my first article in this series:

Currently women are one of the most underrepresented groups in technology. Currently only 25% of computer related jobs in the US are held by women (a number which is currently on the decline). Numbers are even lower for black and latinx women holding only 3% and 1% of computer related jobs respectively.

Women in tech facts and figures:

Click to access womenintech_facts_fullreport_05132016.pdf

https://smallbiztrends.com/2018/women-in-technology-statistics.html

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Women in tech: A deep dive

Part 2: Why are there so few women in the industry?

First let’s revisit some figures from my previous article:

Okay, so now that we see the problem, why is this an issue?

First and foremost is the lack of role models in tech for young women considering the industry. When we normally think of a big name in tech that we look up to most would list off Bezos or Gates.

Gender stereotypes in schools are also a huge issue. The “Math and science is for boys” mentality often hinders young women from considering a future in any STEM field let alone engineering. Perception can be a strong hurdle.

Even once a young woman does graduate with a degree centered towards technology they have one more major hurdle to deal with, recruitment/interviews. There are often a lack of female role models involved in the recruitment/hiring process. A female candidate that sees very few or no female role models during this process may struggle to see herself joining that company.

Women in Tech: A deep Dive

Women are making huge strides in tech spaces slowly diversifying a male dominated industry. Although when we think of big tech startups, famous engineer, big four tech companies, a woman’s name isn’t one that we’d usually come up with. Try it yourself, think of one big name woman in tech, well even for myself I find it hard to think of a name off the top of my head.

So why is that the case?

The Journey Begins

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