Tech loves to talk ‘diversity,’ but some firms are actually moving backwards

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. As researchers who study inequality, we examined the data to go beyond the picture of diversity in the tech sector as a whole. In our most recent research, we looked…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-industry-diversity-research-shows-little-improvement