Women make up less than twenty percent of the technology workforce. We need not discuss the many downsides to this low number; our time is better spent working to improve it.
Rahul Merchant is doing just that. He is executive sponsor of TIAA’s IT Women’s Council, a multi-faceted employee resource program at the $6B financial services company.
“In the 1970s, women were about 13 percent of computer science graduates,” says Merchant. “In the 1980s, that number jumped to almost 35 percent. But recently, it dropped to 17 percent. At TIAA, we are making a very conscious effort to bring more women into IT and to give them support to grow their careers.”
TIAA’s IT Women’s Council is open to all IT employees – including men – and operates at the global and national level through a series of meetings and conferences.
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