24th April 2019
Nearly 40 Percent of Tech Workers Have Faced Sexism at Work
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By PCmag
How pervasive is sexism in the tech industry? According to a new survey from anonymous business-social-network Blind, nearly 40 percent of employees at major US tech companies have faced sexism at work.
Between April 11 and 16, the app maker asked its community of tech workers to answer "true" or "false" to the following statement: "I have witnessed or experienced sexism at my current company." Of the 7,930 tech workers who responded, 36.8 percent said that statement was true.
Breaking down the results by companies with at least 100 unique responses from employees, Intel had the highest percentage of workers indicate they had witnessed or experienced sexism on the job (59 percent), followed by Adobe (41 percent), Oracle (41 percent), Microsoft (40 percent), and Amazon (39 percent).
Google, meanwhile, had the lowest rate of sexism (26 percent of employees polled by Blind indicated they had witnessed or experienced it). Other companies that came in below average were Facebook (29 percent), Uber (32 percent), eBay (32 percent), and Apple (37 percent).
How pervasive is sexism in the tech industry? According to a new survey from anonymous business-social-network Blind, nearly 40 percent of employees at major US tech companies have faced sexism at work.
Between April 11 and 16, the app maker asked its community of tech workers to answer "true" or "false" to the following statement: "I have witnessed or experienced sexism at my current company." Of the 7,930 tech workers who responded, 36.8 percent said that statement was true.
Breaking down the results by companies with at least 100 unique responses from employees, Intel had the highest percentage of workers indicate they had witnessed or experienced sexism on the job (59 percent), followed by Adobe (41 percent), Oracle (41 percent), Microsoft (40 percent), and Amazon (39 percent).
Google, meanwhile, had the lowest rate of sexism (26 percent of employees polled by Blind indicated they had witnessed or experienced it). Other companies that came in below average were Facebook (29 percent), Uber (32 percent), eBay (32 percent), and Apple (37 percent).
"In 2018, a user posted a survey on Blind asking if other users have witnessed sexism in the workplace, and 47 percent answered that they have," Blind's Head of Marketing Kyle McCarthy wrote in a blog post. "Though only 247 users answered the survey, the results are clear—sexism is still a problem at companies today."
Moreover, women in engineering often experience sexism before even entering the workforce, according to a 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study. MIT researchers found that female engineering students "often feel marginalized, especially during internships," driving them from the profession.
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