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The gender gap in tech
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - March 09, 2019 10:00 - 9 minutes - 8.29 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are women really less likely than men to be hired for jobs in tech just because of their sex? A study claims that sexism in the recruitment process is holding women back from entering the tech sector. But the study is not all it seems. There are much better statistics that can help explain why fewer women than men work in tech in the USA and lessons to be learned from India, where there is a much smaller gender gap in the tech sector.
Presenter: Phoebe Keane
Photo: An engineer looking at information on a screen interface
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