Up to 20,000 black women are "missing" from the tech industry in the UK, according to a joint report by campaigners and a representative body.
Campaigning group Coding Black Females said tech "desperately needed" more people from a range of backgrounds.Analysing data from the Office of National Statistics, the authors of the Coding Black Females and BCS report found that black women made up 1.8% of the UK workforce but only 0.7% of those working in technology.
Women are also under-represented in senior leadership roles, it said. In 2021, just 17% of IT directors were female, according to the report. Siba Munsanje, a software engineer at Deloitte, told researchers: "You have to get used to knowing that you are the only one in the room on the team, in the project, at the conference.
Sounds like we ought to throw money at that.
Let’s hope they find her
The daily guilt trip.
Bbc find another racial hatred angle.
Asian woman are quite noticeable in tech industry, they are efficient, smart, excellent at what they do and very knowledgeable about the trade.
Ffs
White women, Chinese women, Thai, Mongolian etc etc missing from UK TV adverts.. You should cover the blatant racism in that field.
Keep on stirring the pot bbc
How racist and sexist is this report!? Surely if “black women” were good enough they’d be in the job. It’s based on skills not the colour or gender of someone. Worlds gone mad
I thought the tech industry was about tech skills, not the skin colour.
White women missing from tech industry, too.
did the report look at the Indian population and African continents population in high tech for how balanced their work forces were ? Talk about bias! I wonder what the Chinese tech work force looks like ?
Watching British adverts is insane. Black man and gay. Ffs
Load of tosh. Jobs should go to those most competent at carrying them out.
ALL Women currently hold 26.7% of tech-related jobs. Why single out Black?
And why is that a problem woke culture is pathetic
I'd imagine there's a serious lack of black female bricklayers but your not going to make an issue of it are you.
I hope they are found safe and well.
So the report is openly saying that industry should employ people based on their race and sex? How is this not a crime when we want equal right to everyone?! Madness!
Priests missing from titty bars
I'm sure africa has a tech industry, something to think about
out of how many eligible for the role candidates? is this because there are not enough people applying?
You can find her in the health care industry
Err female human animals don't like tech industry . Sooooooooooooo! Woke freaks!
They are there. They exist. blackgirltech is a thing. There’s a reason they put “identity” over skills.
Why are we telling black women which industry they should be interested in joining?
Black women have less than the top in all areas unfortunately
This seriously sucks. I hope they find her.
Who cares - people can work wherever they like. Why the constant racist card being pushed these days?Just a modern day creation by a few activist offended that largely doesn’t exist.
3-4% of the overall working population, if that. Where do they think they are going to find all these people?
There is a lack of women in the field of technology in general.
Depends really , a lot of African blacks can be very difficult people to deal with in the work place , can be often very arrogant , this is not an opinion , but a fact
Where did she go?
I’m American biotech they are well represented in my experience