Leadership Coalition

About the EQUALS Leadership Coalition

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The Issue

 

The technology industry has emerged as the world’s economic powerhouse, driving employment and investment and underpinning just about every other economic sector. It’s a field brimming with new opportunity, yet women are all but absent from the senior ranks of most tech companies.

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Recent figures show that while women now make up around 50% of the global workforce, they hold fewer than 1 in 10 senior technology jobs. In Silicon Valley, only 2% of VC tech funding goes to start-ups with female founders – and a mere 7% of VC venture capital partners are women. In addition, qualified women are quitting the tech sector at twice the rate of men.

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Why it matters

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As award-winning actor and gender activist Geena Davis says, “If she can see it, she can be it.” The success of the Coalition’s efforts will create a virtuous circle, creating greater numbers of female role models in tech who will in turn inspire the next generation of girls to aspire to tech leadership.

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It’s time for women to take their place at the boardroom table. Making a difference in technology leadership is a powerful way to exert more profound change across the technology sector as a whole. Working together with you, the EQUALS Leadership Coalition will help create a balanced, diversity-friendly work environment where everyone, regardless of gender, has the chance to nurture their talents and shine.

 

Because when women thrive, societies, businesses and economies thrive.