The gender gap in many fields is becoming very evident and is a growing issue in addition to the growing pressure to address gender inequality. There are low numbers of women in the scientific fields, especially in computer science where the low numbers are a result of the biases of males who are managing conferences and male scientific journal editors. Large technology companies are facing the pressure of addressing sexual harassment in the workplace in addition to acknowledging and fixing the lack of representaion of women and minorities within the white- and male-dominated workplace population. There have been suspicions that the technology underlying the computer algorithm technology used for hiring workers is somehow building biases on top of debate that A.I. technology such as facial recognition technology can also easily provide platforms for biases.
In 2018, almost three times as many computer science articles written by men were published than those written by women, showing the disparity between the sexes in the computer science field. Changes in the number of female authors each year were recorded, and it is expected that gender parity will be reached by 2137, a much farther prediction than other fields (i.e. 2048 for biomedicine); yet researchers say that there is also a possibility that even this will never be reached. This issue also applies to the technology field as well as academia, where there is a shortage of female workers to teach and mentor the future generation of workers; studies show that this contributes to women being less likely to enter, to stick to, and to become leaders in the fields of science and mathematics. To make things worse, studies show that male workers are showing to be increasingly unwilling to collaborate with female researchers.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/technology/gender-gap-tech-computer-science.html?ref=oembed
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