Women have always been instrumental in technology development. Yet, according to a report by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), the amount of women in computing occupations has steadily declined since 1991, when it peaked at 36%.

Do women now have a general lack of interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) positions? Is there a bias inhibiting women’s success in these roles? Are there cultural elements causing the decline?

We’ve tried to get to the bottom of the large gender gap in the tech and data science field.

Women in Science, DataBrigitte BellanJuly 1, 2017Women in Data Science, Data Science, STEM, NCWIT

Women in Data Science are Invisible - Wired

I HAVE TO admit that I never really gave the number of women in data science much thought until recently. Maybe it was because, by some lucky accident, my NYU faculty advisor’s two other PhD students also happened to be female. And about half of my predictive modelling group peers at IBM Research were female. And half of the PhDs here at Dstillery are female.

Data, Gender BiasBrigitte BellanJune 29, 2017Women in Data Science, wired