by Tech plays a big part in problem-solving across industries, but it still has its own problems to tackle. Women only hold about 26.7% of tech-related jobs, despite making up 50% of the population.
This issue needs addressing not just for the sake of ethics and inclusion, but also for innovation and development.
Tech companies worldwide are recognising the ongoing gender imbalance struggle, supporting studies to highlight the issue and actions required to address it.
A 2024 study by SAP, titled More Women in Tech: Industry Fuels Trend to a New Innovation Culture, shows the emergence of new technology roles that extend beyond conventional programming to fields like data science, prompt engineering, ethics expertise and user experience design.
Nonetheless, SAP cautioned about AI’s potential to perpetuate existing gender biases as training data for AI systems often mirror societal imbalances.
“AI inherits bias from the humans who programme it, who, more often than not, are white men”, as Eva Zauke, Global Head of SAP Enterprise Adoption pointed out.
