{"id":1028,"date":"2019-07-24T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/cracking-code-working-together-engage-empower-female-technologists-bloomberg\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T18:46:35","slug":"cracking-code-working-together-engage-empower-female-technologists-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/cracking-code-working-together-engage-empower-female-technologists-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the code: working together to engage and empower female technologists at Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To create products that serve increasingly diverse customers and solve a wider range of social problems, technology companies need women engineers. However, only 25 percent of math and computer science jobs<\/a> in the United States are filled by women, and one-third of women in the U.S. and China quit these jobs mid-career<\/a> due to factors like social isolation, a lack of access to creative technical roles and difficulty advancing to leadership positions.<\/p>\n

At Bloomberg, we\u2019ve established a company culture that supports gender equality in a multitude of ways \u2013 from company-wide Diversity & Inclusion business plans to a newly expanded family leave policy<\/a>. But we know that\u2019s not enough. In recent years, we\u2019ve adopted a system-wide approach to increasing the number of women in technical roles, taking steps to remove barriers to advancement both inside our organization and beyond Bloomberg, supporting female talent from middle school through mid-career.<\/p>\n

While the number of women in technical jobs at Bloomberg is growing, we\u2019re committed to making progress faster and completing all the steps needed to solve the equation. Here are some of the ways we\u2019re tackling this important deficit \u2013 and making quantifiable change.<\/p>\n

Early engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bloomberg supports organizations that help increase women\u2019s participation in STEM and financial technology, exposing students to various career options through Bloomberg Startup and encouraging our female engineers to engage with the next generation of talent.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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