Stack Overflow has released its annual ‘State of the Sector’ survey covering over 1 lakh developers around the world. The survey results show that a vast majority of coders are men. The survey is just another example of gender inequality in the tech sector.
The vast majority of coders (92.9%) are male, with most of them having a BA (46.1%) or an MA (22.6%). As you would expect, 63.7% come from a Computer Science major. Most of the tech professionals (49.2%) are between the age of 25 to 34 years. A vast majority of techies have 30 or more years of professional experience.
One of the industries where achieving gender equality seems a distant dream is the tech industry. Women in tech continue to observe several challenges as the numbers reveal. The tech sector is still male-dominated while women are still lagging behind. Over the past one year, there has been an accelerated awareness of gender biases in the tech industry.
Studies show that companies with diverse viewpoint and different approaches achieve higher sales and stronger market share. Even though studies have proven that besides the core skills, women are good with empathetic skills, emotional intelligence, have a helpful nature which helps in creating and maintaining a healthy working environment.
It is a sad state of affairs that IT firms are twice as likely to hire a man for an IT job as compared to an equally qualified woman. The pattern is driven by an unconscious gender bias. There is no denying that the tech industry has a serious gender gap. While some companies are coming forward to fight against gender inequality, the desired level of equality is yet to be achieved.
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL are used by over 50% respondents around the world. Emerging languages like VBA, Kotlin, Scala, and Perl. Frameworks and libraries are more scattered by Node.js, followed by Angular, React, .Net Core, and Spring. Most of them used databases are MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.