Women In Technology: Why It's Good For Everyone

Women In Technology: Why It's Good For Everyone I’m heading to Ireland soon to take part in the IT@Cork European Technology Summit. The conference is ambitious for certain and will be tackling hot issues from the Cloud, STEM, Digital Media and The Future Of Talent, with top-tier guests from industry leaders, such as VMware, and bright lights in tech education, such as CIT. I’m speaking on a benchmark panel (and a digital marketing one too with a different angle) talking about gender diversity in technology and business. And just to get this straight: gender diversity is business. To keep the private and public sectors going is going to take a bigger and broader talent pool. And while I look forward to the day when I don’t have to get on the soapbox for the STEM sisterhood — because it’s just a given — we’ve got work to do.  Here are four key tasks we’ve got to tackle: 1. Diversity Is Good For Business McKinsey reports that companies in the top quartile in terms of racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more like to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians, and that those in the top quartile for gender diversity are 15 percent more likely. Makes sense: this is a global, multigenerational, hyper-connected world of work. It’s also highly competitive and in need of all the talent we can find.