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The Tech Industry Talks About Boosting Diversity, but Research Shows Little Improvement

Written by: Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, JooHee Han
Published on: Mar 14, 2022
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The U.S. tech sector is growing 10 times faster and has wages twice as high as the rest of the economy. This industry also wins the race for high profits and stock returns.

At the same time, the tech sector’s professional, managerial and executive labor forces are overwhelmingly white and male.

It is not surprising, then, that the field is under a great deal of pressure to diversify its labor force.

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