Women’s Representation In Tech Has Increased, But Growth Is Beginning To Slow 

This slowdown in women’s representation shows that diversity efforts must be constantly reinforced after initial successes, and that gains can be fleeting in an industry that still retains considerable institutional bias in favor of white and Asian males. “Small improvements are better than no improvements, but even if the growth rate is slowing down, that’s an important signal to us that we need to try even more new things to address it,” said Aubrey Blanche, the global head of diversity and inclusion at Atlassian, a business software firm.