Black and Latinx women make up only 5% of tech workers and a coalition of nonprofits and for-profits is working to change that low number. Accenture, Broadridge, Girls Who Code, the Girl Scouts of America and Workday have been added to NPower’s Command Shift Coalition, a project of New York City-based NPower.
Command Shift Coalition is a consortium of business leaders, community organizations, corporations and nonprofits that promote young women of color for technology careers. Since May 2021, the Command Shift Coalition has sought to break down biases and institutional barriers that prevent women of color from engaging in tech careers, as well as provide original research that measures the success of its efforts along with those of other entities.
The reason Command Shift Coalition was launched was to trigger a seismic shift — with founding partners such as Citi, AWS, Guardian Life Insurance, World Wide Technology and Comcast, among others — that increases representation of women of color in the tech sector and in tech-enabled industries. The plan includes:
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Command Shift Coalition is a consortium of business leaders, community organizations, corporations and nonprofits that promote young women of color for technology careers. Since May 2021, the Command Shift Coalition has sought to break down biases and institutional barriers that prevent women of color from engaging in tech careers, as well as provide original research that measures the success of its efforts along with those of other entities.
The reason Command Shift Coalition was launched was to trigger a seismic shift — with founding partners such as Citi, AWS, Guardian Life Insurance, World Wide Technology and Comcast, among others — that increases representation of women of color in the tech sector and in tech-enabled industries. The plan includes:
Continue reading: https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/technology/women-in-tech-coalition-gains-new-strength/
