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As Women’s History Month draws to a close, we’re spotlighting members of the HashiCorp community to share the journeys and achievements of women working in tech. Throughout March, the Women of HashiCorp employee resource group (ERG) and the wider community have celebrated Women's History Month. This annual observance recognizes the pivotal contributions of women to historical and modern-day society with activities designed to engage, educate, and inspire. Now, as Women’s History Month comes to a close, we are spotlighting empowering stories and advice from a few of our employees: Kelly McCarthy, Solutions Engineer | Austin, Texas What advice do you have for women looking to excel in technology? Most importantly, ask questions. At first I was apprehensive about asking people questions because I did not want to come across as not knowing anything, but that can really be detrimental to your personal and professional development. Most people are willing to help and even if they do not know the answer, they will find another person or resource who does. What women in tech have inspired or influenced your career path? My first manager, Julie Seo. Her drive and ability to lead a successful sales team was something that I observed from Day 1, and this ignited my interest in tech sales. She is even one of the co-chairs of the Women of HashiCorp ERG! This showcases that she looks to not only invest her time and energy into making the business successful, but also lifting up people around her. Do you have any tips for maintaining work-life balance? Exploring new interests in the community around you can help create things to do and look forward to outside of work. Since moving to Austin to work for HashiCorp, I have joined a running club. It has helped me explore the city and have something to look forward to during the week. Jenny Evans, Director, Corporate Communications, EMEA | London What was your journey to HashiCorp? I fell into marketing and communications more than 15 years ago, as a single parent, and quickly realized that I could forge a diverse and enjoyable career that used my skills. I’ve always worked in engineering and tech businesses; I find learning about complex concepts and helping others understand them very rewarding. Plus it’s an industry that’s always going to be at the forefront of the future, which is hugely exciting. What advice do you have for women looking to excel in technology? Don’t dismiss yourself as not-technical. I catch myself saying self-deprecating comments and it’s just not true. Just because you haven’t trained as an engineer or in computer science doesn’t mean you can’t have an impact in tech. You know more than you think and there are many ways to be technical without writing code. What women in tech have inspired or influenced your career path? HashiCorp Field CTO Sarah Polan and our Vice President of Northern EMEA Lousie Fellows. I have the utmost admiration for their knowledge, work ethic, and willingness to support those around them. They are role models willing to share their experiences of the good, bad, and occasionally ugly side of being a woman in tech, and how to succeed. Diana Akiri, Sales Development Representative, AMER | Austin, Texas Do you have any tips for maintaining work-life balance? What worked for me was going into each work day with the intention to feel almost tired by the end of it. Being productive and doing all the work I can within working hours actually made me feel good about rewarding myself with the evening off and alleviated a lot of stress and guilt. The mentality that I had to get x amount of tasks done in x amount of time has allowed me to not only reach professional goals and become a top performer, but also to feel proud of myself for the results I produced. What was your journey to HashiCorp? I was a junior in college when I came across HashiCorp. I was very interested in doing the Sales Development Representative internship, so once I applied, interviewed, and got accepted, I was over the moon! I’ve since established lasting connections with my fellow interns and many others on various teams. The internship was not only an introduction to HashiCorp, but also to the tech industry. I was able to learn the lingo and understand what the current landscape looks like and how HashiCorp solutions fit in it. I was able to become one of the top performers in the internship so I got a return offer, started after I graduated college, and have been working on the sales team ever since! Celine Valentine, Solutions Engineer | Houston, Texas What was your journey to HashiCorp? My journey began as a high school STEM teacher, where I discovered my passion for technology while inspiring young minds. Transitioning into software engineering and eventually solutions engineering, I've embraced the dynamic tech field, relishing the opportunity to learn daily on the job. My focus lies in leveraging tech knowledge to empower customers, aiding them in navigating complex cloud infrastructure and security challenges. What advice do you have for women looking to excel in technology? Consistently seek feedback to improve and reflect regularly to identify areas for growth. Embrace a mindset of continuous learning, striving to become an expert in one domain before branching out to others. What challenges have you faced in your career and how did you overcome them? I've learned to execute decisions thoughtfully, overcoming challenges by incorporating multiple perspectives and seeking advice. By channeling emotions into empathy and utilizing outlets like physical activities and hobbies, I've navigated difficulties while celebrating each step forward. What words of encouragement would you like to share? Always seek support from family, coworkers, and mentors during challenging times, fostering a positive circle of influence. Approach difficult situations with careful consideration and execution, utilizing emotions for empathy while maintaining sensibility. Communicate with clarity for conflict resolution, providing constructive alternative solutions in a diplomatic manner. Find outlets for self-expression and positive coping mechanisms, celebrating small victories to propel yourself forward. Netra Mali, Software Engineer, Terraform | Toronto What was your journey to HashiCorp? A passion for technology and problem-solving led me to pursue a degree in computer science. Here, I gained valuable experience and skills interning at several tech companies, including HashiCorp, having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects and collaborate with talented individuals. I made meaningful contributions, and my team was impressed by my work ethic, passion, and initiative to be involved in the HashiCorp community. When I received a full-time offer from HashiCorp, I was thrilled to accept. At HashiCorp, I've been able to work on challenging projects, contribute to impactful customer-facing initiatives, and grow both personally and professionally. What advice do you have for women looking to excel in technology? Initially I struggled to voice my ideas, opinions, and concerns in meetings and discussions. However, once I overcame my fear of saying the wrong thing, I realized the impact sharing a thought can have on the overall success of my team. It’s about taking that first leap and slowly building up the confidence to advocate for yourself as well as paving a way for future generations of women in technology. My advice for women looking to excel in the technology field is rooted in my own experiences. First and foremost, believe in yourself and your capabilities. Confidence in your skills will propel you forward, even in the face of doubt or adversity. Having a positive attitude towards solving challenges will help you in situations where you don’t have the answers right away. Seek out mentors and allies who can offer support and guidance as you navigate your career path. These connections can provide valuable insights and help you overcome obstacles along the way. Caroline Belchamber, Account Manager, London What advice do you have for women looking to excel in technology? Listen, listen, listen and ask questions, even ones that you may feel are stupid. Those are the questions that could give you the clarity you need to start building knowledge and opinions. Putting ego aside, ask others to “explain it to me like I’m five years old” or “draw it for me” (if you’re a visual learner). It’s amazing how much people who have technical knowledge appreciate imparting that knowledge on others. What challenges have you faced in your career and how have you overcome them? As a woman working in IT for the past 15 years I’ve had a range of experiences; from being told to “make the tea” to being spat at for telling someone they were wrong. (This genuinely happened at a conference when I was demoing a product on a big screen). To overcome these negative experiences, one simply has to think, “What is going on in that person’s life to warrant such behavior?”, then take a deep breath and move on. Who has inspired or influenced your career path? I instantly thought of a handful of people that I have been lucky enough to meet, work with, and remain friends with, including: Tanya Helin, CRO at AutoRABIT; Carol Swartz, Director of Partner Development at Microsoft; HashiCorp’s Heather Potter, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, and Meghan Liese, Vice President of Product Marketing. Do you have any tips for maintaining work-life balance? Set boundaries based on what is important to you and your family. Turn off access to systems (Slack, email, etc.) to reduce the temptation to log back on. View the full article

It’s not often we step outside of our careers and busy everyday lives and pause to say, “Hey, what is this all about? Am I fulfilled? Am I finding meaning in what I’m doing day to day?” As the Head of Commercial Legal at GitHub, I have quite a unique role. Most of my career was spent in a law firm until I transitioned into tech. I came from a male-dominated workplace and saw tech as a new environment (though still male-dominated) where ideas flourished and folks were allowed to be themselves in a safe space. But this month—March is Gender Equality Month and celebrates Women’s Day—gave a reason to pause and reflect on my own journey, as well as ask what people and organizations are doing every day to empower women. So, I sat down with Felicitas Heyne, co-founder of Audiopedia Foundation, as well as Nadine Krish Spencer, Head of Product and Experience at Chayn. We discussed how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and what advice and learnings they’d like to share with others. I hope you find as much inspiration from their mission, work, and stories as I did. Jiyon Yun Head of Commercial Legal // GitHub Getting to know Audiopedia Foundation Jiyon (GitHub): The work Audiopedia Foundation is doing is truly remarkable, and I would love to hear in your own words why these efforts are so essential and how you came to help found this organization. Felicitas (Audiopedia): Audiopedia Foundation works to empower women in the global south through access to information in an audio format. We work with NGOs around the world to bring different forms of tech—from solar-powered audio players to WhatsApp to loudspeakers—to local communities based on their unique needs. I had never dreamt of leading an organization doing social impact work all over the globe. But I have a hard time realizing there is an injustice and not doing anything about it. I’ve always been passionate about empowering women and when we started to dive into the topic, we realized that 500 million women in the world are illiterate—and these are just the official numbers. There are also more than 7,000 languages in the world, half of which don’t even have a written language. We tried to come up with an idea to bring information to these women—including topics like health, economics, human rights—which sparked the idea of Audiopedia nine years ago. Getting to know Chayn Jiyon (GitHub): I think we could all take away some learnings from Chayn—from your values to the way you operate. Could you tell me about Chayn’s mission? Nadine (Chayn): Chayn is a tech-forward nonprofit that aims to support survivors of sexual abuse, assault, and domestic violence with healing. We use technology to further accelerate that mission. Jiyon: What really stood out for me about Chayn is how survivors are supporting other survivors. Can you speak a little bit more about that? How are women empowering other women to heal, find peace, and move forward? Nadine: It’s definitely a powerful part of our organization. We are all women in the organization at the moment and that’s different, especially if you come from the tech world. It was something that really drew me to Chayn and I thought, “Wow, I really want to see whether this survivor focus—we call it a trauma-informed way of working—is actually possible.” And to be totally transparent, we’re still figuring out the answer to that because we do have a lot of survivors on the team. It’s not something that people have to disclose, but it’s a constant awareness for us. And even if people aren’t survivors, quite often people close to them have experienced abuse. That adds an extra layer of understanding to the people we’re trying to reach and helps further our mission. The role of tech in social impact work Jiyon: What is the role of tech and open source in helping social impact organizations tackle global issues? Felicitas: Tech is really a big opportunity to make a change. We’ve been doing development work for decades now and still, every third woman can’t read or write. These numbers haven’t changed despite all of the work from NGOs and that’s because the scalability and impact aren’t sufficient. But we can leapfrog this problem now with tech. That’s why tech is such a big opportunity. We can solve problems that we haven’t been able to solve for decades. And we can solve them quickly, so we don’t have to take another 300 years to reach gender equality. Nadine: As somebody coming from the tech world, there was an assumption that moving into the charity or nonprofit sector might mean that it’s less progressive or less advanced in tech. But last year we were part of the DPG Open Source Community Manager Program and worked with a community manager who we’ve now gone on to employ. It has been instrumental having somebody who really got it from the tech side; we had tried to set up our own tech volunteer program before, but we saw it as quite a heavy lift to manage a tech community. And I think what she has really helped us to see is that there are people out there who just want to come in and help, without having met you or even getting credit. They do it because they’ve got an itch they want to scratch or they see this as a way to contribute to social good, and that is really unique. I don’t know if another industry operates like that where strangers come in and essentially perform random acts of kindness. Sources of inspiration Jiyon: As a woman leader, what inspires you? Who inspires you? Felicitas: Any woman who’s willing and able to overcome obstacles. Becoming a victim is easy for a woman, but it’s very inspiring to see how women overcome and even grow from these challenges. Women are the largest untapped potential in the world in my point of view. We’ve had 2,000 years of patriarchy behind us, and I’d really love to see what would happen with 2,000 years of matriarchy ahead of us. When we were in Morocco, we went to a women’s shelter and I listened to many women’s stories. As I listened to them, I had no idea how they could overcome and survive what they went through, but they were there, many with their children, moving forward. It was so impressive and I realized that anything I could do to make it easier for them and women like them is an obligation. I didn’t earn my privilege; it was mere luck. So, I have a strong need to help those who aren’t as privileged. It’s a question of justice in my eyes; inequality drives me crazy. Advice for women in tech Jiyon: If you looked back 5 years ago, 10 years ago, or when you were starting your career, what advice would you give women who aren’t in tech right now but who want to follow that path? Nadine: Tech holds the power to try and do things differently. And we’re at a point where it would be easy for women to retreat. In the same way that sometimes we retreat from other male-dominated spaces; the wider world of tech could become one of those places. When I was in the commercial world, I tried my best as one of two women on a floor with maybe 100 men. I joined the company when it was only 35 people as a product manager and saw them scale to around 450 people by the time I left. Because I was able to climb so quickly as the company scaled, I struggled a lot with imposter syndrome. People would tell me to “break down the imposter syndrome,” especially because I was a woman. But the idea of just “breaking it down” is really tough, and it made me think even more that I wasn’t cut out to do this, which was really hard to shake. But as the company grew and I was surrounded by more women, I actually realized the better advice is: find your allies. Having allies—of any gender—helps you start to shake the imposter syndrome naturally and you become a lot more confident when you’re not in a place of isolation. Where we go from here Jiyon: What can women and other leaders do to contribute to and inspire change? Felicitas: The key is empathy. If you start to look to the global south, you very quickly realize that most of the things we take for granted in our lives aren’t granted for billions of people, especially women. It’s important to question your position in the world, recognize your privileges, and use your empathy to drive action. Nadine: It’s really important to get some “balcony time” where you step out and look over what’s going on in your life and all around you. It’s really difficult to juggle everything in your day-to-day life and to just stop and reflect. And the second part is then to act on those realizations and start doing things for other people. It’s taking the time to acknowledge the people in your life and to say, “I see you there and I see how you’re showing up for other people.” Recognition and support are things we’ve got to do for each other. Speaking with both Felicitas and Nadine moved me in a way I wasn’t expecting. It was a good reminder to take that “balcony time” and step outside of my every day, reflect on what I can do to impact others, and take steps to do that. I hope you found some inspiration from their stories as well. If you want to learn more or support these causes, visit Audiopedia Foundation’s website and repository and Chayn’s website and repository. You can also contribute to Chayn’s frontend, backend, and soulmedicine work.

The technology landscape has long been a domain of intense innovation and dynamic change. Yet, one of the most significant changes in recent years is the increasing visibility and impact of women in tech, especially in fields like DevOps and platform engineering. Names like Nicole Forsgren, Julia Evans, Bridget Kromhout, Nora Jones, and Dora Korpar, among others, have become synonymous with excellence and innovation in these domains. The Trailblazers In the world of DevOps and platform engineering, there are inspiring stories of female leaders like Nicole Forsgren, who have not only broken through gender barriers but have also excelled in their roles. View the full article

I joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Solutions Architect in September 2022, a few months after participating in AWS Women in Cloud (WiC), a workforce development initiative designed to inspire, motivate, and connect female learners to AWS training and cloud-related job opportunities. As I approach my one-year “Amaversary,” as we Amazonians like to call it, I’m moved to share my journey with the hopes it inspires even one woman to see her future in my story. Since I was young, I dreamed of working for a big tech company, but this dream always seemed far from attainable. You see, I was born and raised in a city of 140,000 inhabitants in the interior of Rio de Janerio State in Brazil. Growing up in such a small and remote part of Brazil presented me with few opportunities for professional growth, especially when it came to tech... View the full article

From 9 to 12 May this year, people from 165 countries gathered virtually for the Women in Tech Global Conference. The conference is the flagship event of the WomenTech Network, a community for women in tech worldwide. Canonical was a gold event sponsor, and several team members participated as keynote speakers, networking hosts and attendees... View the full article

There is an ongoing representation gap in tech leadership. This gap has been associated with built-in biases in promotion policies leading to female engineers being promoted at a slower rate than men, spending more time in entry- and mid-level roles, creating a bottleneck for women’s career advancement. A study by HackerRank found that women developers, regardless of age, are more likely to have longer dwell time in entry-level positions —20.4% of women over the age of 35 are in entry-level roles compared to only 5.9% in men. Additionally, there has been a lack of upskilling opportunities and mentorship to help female engineers ascend to leadership roles. Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT) is a non-profit organization that aims at addressing this gap by providing upskilling avenues and increasing the availability of women tech leaders as mentors. AWIT recently launched a collection of courses on Real-World Engineering Management, sponsored by AWS and available exclusively on Coursera... View the full article

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and Spring is almost here! If you’re curious about AWS news from the previous seven days, I got you covered. Last Week’s Launches Here are the launches that got my attention last week: Amazon S3 – Last week there was AWS Pi Day 2023 celebrating 17 years of innovation since Amazon S3 was introduced on March 14, 2006. For the occasion, the team released many new capabilities: S3 Object Lambda now provides aliases that are interchangeable with bucket names and can be used with Amazon CloudFront to tailor content for end users. S3 now support datasets that are replicated across multiple AWS accounts with cross-account support for S3 Multi-Region Access Points. You can now create and configure replication rules to automatically replicate S3 objects from one AWS Outpost to another. Amazon S3 has also simplified private connectivity from on-premises networks: with private DNS for S3, on-premises applications can use AWS PrivateLink to access S3 over an interface endpoint, while requests from your in-VPC applications access S3 using gateway endpoints. We released Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client. Read more in the blog. Note that Mountpoint isn’t a general-purpose networked file system, and comes with some restrictions on file operations. Amazon Linux 2023 – Our new Linux-based operating system is now generally available. Sébastien’s post is full of tips and info. Application Auto Scaling – Now can use arithmetic operations and mathematical functions to customize the metrics used with Target Tracking policies. You can use it to scale based on your own application-specific metrics. Read how it works with Amazon ECS services. AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 is now generally available – You can now share and find data files directly from S3 buckets, without the need to create or manage copies of the data. Amazon Neptune – Now offers a graph summary API to help understand important metadata about property graphs (PG) and resource description framework (RDF) graphs. Neptune added support for Slow Query Logs to help identify queries that need performance tuning. Amazon OpenSearch Service – The team introduced security analytics that provides new threat monitoring, detection, and alerting features. The service now supports OpenSearch version 2.5 that adds several new features such as support for Point in Time Search and improvements to observability and geospatial functionality. AWS Lake Formation and Apache Hive on Amazon EMR – Introduced fine-grained access controls that allow data administrators to define and enforce fine-grained table and column level security for customers accessing data via Apache Hive running on Amazon EMR. Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances – You can now update guest environments to a specific or the latest macOS version without having to tear down and recreate the existing macOS environments. AWS Chatbot – Now Integrates With Microsoft Teams to simplify the way you troubleshoot and operate your AWS resources. Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection for Amazon Aurora – Now generally available to help profile and monitor access activity to Aurora databases in your AWS account without impacting database performance AWS Database Migration Service – Now supports validation to ensure that data is migrated accurately to S3 and can now generate an AWS Glue Data Catalog when migrating to S3. AWS Backup – You can now back up and restore virtual machines running on VMware vSphere 8 and with multiple vNICs. Amazon Kendra – There are new connectors to index documents and search for information across these new content: Confluence Server, Confluence Cloud, Microsoft SharePoint OnPrem, Microsoft SharePoint Cloud. This post shows how to use the Amazon Kendra connector for Microsoft Teams. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. Other AWS News A few more blog posts you might have missed: Women founders Q&A – We’re talking to six women founders and leaders about how they’re making impacts in their communities, industries, and beyond. What you missed at that 2023 IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference – Where hundreds of nonprofit leaders, technologists, and innovators gathered to learn and share how AWS can drive a positive impact for people and the planet. Monitoring load balancers using Amazon CloudWatch anomaly detection alarms – The metrics emitted by load balancers provide crucial and unique insight into service health, service performance, and end-to-end network performance. Extend geospatial queries in Amazon Athena with user-defined functions (UDFs) and AWS Lambda – Using a solution based on Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index (H3) to divide the globe into equally-sized hexagons. How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety – A guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London. For AWS open-source news and updates, here’s the latest newsletter curated by Ricardo to bring you the most recent updates on open-source projects, posts, events, and more. Upcoming AWS Events Here are some opportunities to meet: AWS Public Sector Day 2023 (March 21, London, UK) – An event dedicated to helping public sector organizations use technology to achieve more with less through the current challenging conditions. Women in Tech at Skills Center Arlington (March 23, VA, USA) – Let’s celebrate the history and legacy of women in tech. The AWS Summits season is warming up! You can sign up here to know when registration opens in your area. That’s all from me for this week. Come back next Monday for another Week in Review! — Danilo View the full article

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is an important topic, especially in technology and engineering fields. Not only do diverse teams increase the potential for higher profit earnings, but they also make better business decisions. From a cybersecurity perspective, more diverse teams are less likely to suffer from the misperception of risk and thus build stronger systems and more robust controls. And yet, despite all the efforts to promote a better gender balance within the fields of technical and engineering, there are now fewer women in these roles than there were five years ago. While the number of men in technical and engineering roles has increased by 14%, the number of women in these roles has contracted by 2%. Additionally, women are leaving leadership positions twice as fast as their male colleagues do, most commonly because of internal politics, lack of recognition, unsupportive working environments, and lack of diversity. While it is easy to just say "hire more diversity," making a real difference takes a lot more than that. One issue: only 19% of US STEM graduates identify as women, which means there is a substantial disparity in the pool of candidates. So, what can organizations do to ensure better gender diversity? Let’s look at some real-world approaches worth pursuing ... View the full article

One of the goals of HashiCorp’s Early Career program is to create and support opportunities in the tech industry for people in underrepresented groups who might not ordinarily have considered a career in the tech industry. Zoraya Sanchez De La Vega Cayero is great example of the program’s impact. Zoraya is someone many would consider a non-traditional student and tech intern. She is a wife and mother of four (aged 23, 21, 18, and 16) who had a long-term career in healthcare before to returning to school to pursue a technical degree. People are often shocked when they discover she’s studying software engineering. She’s not what they expect when they think “tech” or "engineer," a preconception we’re hoping to change. Zoraya is now a rising senior at the University of Texas in UT Dallas pursuing a BS in software engineering. She joined the HashiCorp Engineering team in May 2022 as a Technical Program Manager Intern, and couldn’t be more grateful for the opportunity. We asked Zoraya to talk about how she got here and what’s she’s learned along the way ... View the full article

NEW YORK, FEB 5, 2021 – Women in Tech is thrilled to announce its Silver partnership with EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. With more than 50,000 members worldwide, they’re accelerating the fight to close the gender gap and empower women by helping them embrace technology. Women […] The post Women In Tech And Epam Partner To Advance Women In The Future Of Work appeared first on DevOps.com. View the full article

Global executive search firm, Odgers Berndtson, has disclosed that average salaries for women leaders in the technology sector have moved ahead of men for the first time. The finding was disclosed in a global study of almost 1,000 executive searches for top roles in technology, which the firm has carried out since 2015. During this time both the women’s share of top commercial roles, and their earnings, doubled – with average salaries for women exceeding those for men for the first time in 2018. However, the study also shows that significant challenges remain for women in many areas of technology, notably across specialist roles. Mike Drew, head of the global technology practice at Odgers Berndtson, said: “We are delighted with the progress made over the past five years for women in top commercial roles with global technology companies. We hope this is just the start of far greater diversity, which our mentoring initiative aims to accelerate.” At the end of last year, the Hampton-Alexander Review, backed by the government, reported that the number of women on FTSE 100 boards has exceeded 30% for the first time, but in smaller companies and executive roles there is still much to do. Its aim is to achieve a third of women on boards of all FTSE 350 companies by 2020. Some industry functions and sectors, however, including technology, face particular challenges. Tech UK, a membership body representing the UK technology sector, has noted that overall only 17% of the those working in technology roles are female. At the leadership level, numbers of women are lower still, recently estimated at around 9% globally and 5% in the UK. The extent of this challenge, and progress made in the past five years across top roles, is detailed in the Odgers Berndtson Women Leaders in Technology Study. The firm has analysed almost 1,000 of its own executive searches across both commercial roles in the technology sector and specialist technology roles across all companies since 2015. It reveals that: Average pay differentials for women placed by Odgers Berndtson in top commercial roles in the technology sector have almost disappeared in the past five years, with average salaries for top female executives rising from £122,000 in 2013 (less than half the male average) to £330,000 in 2018. This put average salaries for women in top commercial roles at technology companies ahead of those for men for the first time Since 2015 women almost doubled their share of leadership placements in technology companies from 11% to over 20% of appointments Men still dominate the most highly-paid technology leadership roles in general. Women, however, are narrowing the gap, particularly in placements of commercial leaders in the technology sector In the technology function, for leadership roles including Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, men still dominate both in numbers and earning power, with significantly higher salary packages The number of women successfully placed as technology leaders is increasing, nonetheless. The Odgers Berndtson study shows women placed in top technology roles like CIO and CTO almost doubled from 9% to 17% of total placements in 2018. “The gender gap in functional technology roles is not closing as quickly as we might hope,” said Caroline Sands, head of the CIO and technology officers practice at Odgers Berndtson. “Although the most talented female technologists are now more likely to reach the top, in many specialist areas there won’t be gender parity until fundamental concerns of younger women over culture are addressed.” The post Women in technology double top roles and out-earn men for the first time appeared first on DevOps Online. View the full article