The Future of Tech Is Female (eBook)

How to Achieve Gender Diversity

Douglas M. Branson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1600-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An accessible and timely guide to increasing female presence and leadership in tech companies Tech giants like Apple and Google are among the fastest growing companies in the world, leading innovations in design and development. The industry continues to see rapid growth, employing millions of people: in the US it is at the epicenter of the American economy. So why is it that only 5% of senior executives in the tech industry are female? Underrepresentation of women on boards of directors, in the C-suite, and as senior managers remains pervasive in this industry. As tech companies are plagued with high-profile claims of harassment and discrimination, and salary discrepancies for comparable work, one asks what prevents women from reaching management roles, and, more importantly, what can be done to fix it? The Future of Tech is Female considers the paradoxes involved in women s ascent to leadership roles, suggesting industry-wide solutions to combat gender inequality. Drawing upon 15 years of experience in the field, Douglas M. Branson traces the history of women in the information technology industry in order to identify solutions for the issues facing women today. Branson explores a variety of solutions such as mandatory quota laws for female employment, pledge programs, and limitations on the H1-B VISA program, and grapples with the challenges facing women in IT from a range of perspectives. Branson unpacks the plethora of reasons women should hold leadership roles, both in and out of this industry, concluding with a call to reform attitudes toward women in one particular IT branch, the video and computer gaming field, a gateway to many STEM futures. An invaluable resource for anyone invested in gender equality in corporate governance, The Future of Tech is Female lays out the first steps toward a more diverse future for women in tech leadership

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 2 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: advice books for women • AltSchool • Ann Hopkins • Australian Institute of Company Directors • Australian Stock Exchange • Bryce Holzer • career customization • Carleton Fiorina • Carol Bartz • catalyst • celebrity directors • CEOs’ career paths • certificate and pledge programs • Chevron • coding schools • comply or explain regimes • Computer Games • computer gaming • corporate governance theories • critical mass theory • Cyber Bullying • Davies Committee • Deloitte Touche • diverse slate rule • diversity in information technology • Dodd-Frank Act • education of female students • Education Policies • employment pool problem • existential feminism • Flex time • Forbes • fortune • Frederick Winslow Taylor • gaming industry • glass cliff theory • grace hopper • H-1B visa • how-to books for women • immigration regulations • Information Technology • Information technology industry • IT industry • John Sculley • leaky pipe phenomenon • Lean in • liberal feminism • Management by Objectives • mandatory disclosure • mandatory quota laws • Maternity leave • matrix form of organization • MBA degrees • Meg Whitman • mentoring and sponsorship • Norway • objectification of women • off-ramps and on-ramps • opt-out phenomenon • paid family leave • Peter Drucker • Pew Research Center • PricewaterhouseCoopers • Regulation S-K • Rooney Rule • Safra Catz • Sarbanes-Oxley Act • Scientific Management • SEC • Securities and Exchange Commission • Sheryl Sandberg • single-sex education • STEM Education • STEM education for women • structured search • Talent to the Top • The Last Male Bastion • Title VII of the Civil Rights Act • trophy directors • underrepresentation of women • vestibule schools • video games • women CEOs • women in computer science • women in information technology • Women in Leadership • Women in Management • women in senior management • women’s employment in information technology • women senior executives
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1600-0 / 1479816000
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1600-2 / 9781479816002