The Women Tech Council recently hosted a virtual summit on the first female recession, which caught my attention because I assumed women’s progress in computer science had been improving, albeit slowly. The information presented at the summit proved me horribly wrong. The global Coronavirus pandemic has made the inequalities that women in tech face such as the gender pay gap and underrepresentation, worse.
Cristin O'Connor
Front End Software Engineer
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