Study Reveals: Canada Country with 5th Highest % of Women in Tech

With gender disparity a topic at the forefront of modern discourse, leading technology career platform Honeypot, has released the 2018 Women in Tech Index. The results offer a view on gender-based employment inequalities both at large and in the technology sector. In an effort to position themselves as industry experts, the developer-focused career platform decided to research the role that gender parity plays in the technology landscape by comparing the proportion of female employees, gender wage gap and opportunities for women in the IT field, among other criteria. In sharing the results of this study, Honeypot aims to highlight which countries offer the best opportunities for women in tech and to encourage the industry at large to take further positive steps towards gender parity.

The study focuses on 41 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union (EU), and offers comparable data relating to both the tech industry and the wage gap. The data covers areas such as:

Gender in the Overall Economy: factors such as percentage of women in work and the overall gender income parity.
Women in Tech: as measured by the number of women in IT positions compared to the overall numbers of people in tech.
Opportunities for Women in Tech: calculated by comparing the difference between the percentage share of women in the general workforce, and the percentage of women in the technology sector. In addition, the study took into account the percentage of female STEM graduates.
Tech Wage Gap: difference in gender wage gap between women working in the tech industry and the overall workforce at large.
Female Career Progression: as judged by the percentage of women in managerial and ministerial positions.

In order to pinpoint any potential barriers which might hinder a woman’s progression and to highlight the best opportunities for women, Honeypot also looked at the Gender Inequality Index. This analyses women’s reproductive health, empowerment and labour market participation to conclude overall parity. To de

termine if equality has increased or decreased in recent history, they then calculated the difference between the current available wage gap data, as compared to five years previous.

“Gender parity in the workplace is not just an ethical or moral issue, but also an economic one: McKinsey found that $12 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 by advancing women’s equality. As tech recruitment specialists, we are often confronted with the gender imbalances of the industry, which are fully exposed in this study.” says Emma Tracey, Co-Founder at Honeypot. “With the proportion of female tech workers remaining under 30% across the board, we hope that this study will enrich the conversation concerning equality in this industry and inspire more women to seek out opportunities in tech.”

View Honeypot’s interactive table to see how each country compares across a number of other measures, including percentage of female STEM graduates, Gender Inequality Index, and more.