Published September 20, 2024
By : Staff Writer
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A new report from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has found that sixty years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there is a high degree of underrepresentation and a lack of career advancement for female, Black, and Hispanic workers in the high tech workforce, despite the recent period of growth in high tech occupations.
The high-tech workforce in the U.S. continues to have low representation of Black, Hispanic, and female workers, both in the overall workforce and as high-tech managers.
Black workers make up only 7.4% of the high-tech workforce and 5.7% of high-tech managers, despite comprising 11.6% of the total U.S. workforce.
Black and Hispanic employees are particularly underrepresented in the sector.
The report highlights the ongoing underrepresentation of these groups in both the high-tech workforce and the high-tech sector. However, there is potential for equal access to high-tech employment opportunities, given the higher pay, greater stability, and projected growth in high-tech occupations.
High-tech jobs are expected to continue growing and are typically higher paid and more stable than non-technical occupations.
The high-tech workforce has been growing at a much faster rate than the total U.S. workforce, and the STEM workforce is projected to continue growing at a faster rate through 2032.
The high-tech workforce has made significant strides in becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, with workers of color now making up 40.1% of the workforce in 2022.
However, the EEOC findings highlight the crucial importance of ensuring equal opportunity in the high-tech workforce and sector.
The report, as defined by the EEOC, focuses on workers in 56 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations, regardless of industry.
In 2016 and 2017, the EEOC and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzed the gender and race/ethnic diversity in the high-tech workforce and sector.
The report explores gender and race/ethnic diversity over the years, detailing the high-tech workforce by age, analyzing gender, racial, and ethnic diversity by employer size and occupation within the high-tech sector, and describing the most common types of discrimination charges filed with the EEOC and the EEOC’s recent litigation in the high-tech sector.
The high-tech workforce in the U.S. continues to have low representation of Black, Hispanic, and female workers, both in the overall workforce and as high-tech managers.
The report highlights the ongoing underrepresentation of these groups in both the high-tech workforce and the high-tech sector.
However, there is potential for equal access to high-tech employment opportunities, given the higher pay, greater stability, and projected growth in high-tech occupations.
High-tech jobs are expected to continue growing and are typically higher paid and more stable than non-technical occupations.
The high-tech workforce has been growing at a much faster rate than the total U.S. workforce, and the STEM workforce is projected to continue growing at a faster rate through 2032.
“Sixty years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there is a high degree of underrepresentation and a disturbing lack of career advancement for female, Black, and Hispanic workers in the high tech workforce, despite the recent period of growth in high tech occupations. pic.twitter.com/bYWZAfdD9J
— U.S. EEOC (@USEEOC) September 11, 2024
A new EEOC report on the rapidly growing high tech industry shows that while the workforce has become more racially and ethnically diverse women, Black, and Hispanic workers remain substantially underrepresented. https://t.co/JkBtAZDyVf pic.twitter.com/r6PIFYFLwu
— U.S. EEOC (@USEEOC) September 17, 2024
The high tech workforce has grown at nearly 6X the rate of the total U.S. workforce. Equal access to employment opportunities in this sector is particularly important to workers given the higher pay, stability, and projected growth of these occupations. https://t.co/JkBtAZDyVf pic.twitter.com/plb1ljBhA2
— U.S. EEOC (@USEEOC) September 12, 2024
