The corporate tech sector is notorious for its lack of diversity. According to U.S. Labor Department statistics from 2019, less than 1% of all employees at U.S. software companies are Black.
A 2019 report by the Center for Talent Innovation outlines that Black professionals had held just 3.3% of all senior or executive leadership roles in the U.S. the previous year.
Women are also still grossly underrepresented in the tech industry, averaging 34.4% of the workforce across big tech companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, according to Statista.
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