"A huge focus and opportunity" - Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on DEI

But “there’s a lot of work to do”

Tom Allen
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The developer industry

The IT sector in general skews towards the white male demographic, but the most technical part – development – is even more heavily weighted. To keep growing, the industry has got to change.

Female representation in IT hovers between 25% and 30% of the total workforce, depending on the source you read. But in development - a heavily technical and, it has to be said, occasionally insula...

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