The technology industry has generated significant, and sometimes enormous, personal fortunes. Yet overall, representation remains low and attrition high, especially for women of color. Coding schools for people of marginalized genders are expanding, and the number of female majors in some top computer science programs has increased. The proportion of women in technical roles at large companies is higher than it used to be but remains a painfully low 25%. Despite the sector’s great wealth and loudly self-proclaimed corporate commitments to the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and racial minorities, tech remains mostly a straight, white man’s world. Even as the market overall turned bearish in 2022, the combined market capitalization of the five largest tech companies approached $8 trillion. Many slickly designed diversity reports and ten thousand Grace Hopper coffee mugs later, the most striking change has been in the size and wealth of the technology sector itself. All catalyzed an overdue public reckoning over the industry’s endemic sexism, racism, and lack of representation at the top. Two years later came the toxicity and misogyny of Gamergate, followed by #MeToo scandals and further revelations of powerful tech-business men behaving very badly.
A full decade has passed since Ellen Pao filed a sexual discrimination suit against her employer, the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
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