By Ella Walters, Head of Data Science, Constellation AI
It came as no surprise that when a recent report from McKinsey found that, although companies say they are committed to improving diversity, little actual progress has been made to improve the representation of women – as well as other under-represented minorities – in the workplace.
This is exceptionally prevalent in the technology sector, where the proportion of women to men is actually falling.
For many years, a significant proportion of software programmers were female. Indeed, in 1967, an article in Cosmopolitan magazine, entitled “The Computer Girls”, described computing as an ideal career path for young women. Today, however, only around one in five (22 percent) of professionals working in AI – comparably, a form of modern day computing – is a woman....