Winning the race to the digital economy by cracking the code on the gender gap

Paul Daugherty is chief technology officer at Accenture. Cracking the Gender Code, a research report produced jointly by Accenture and Girls Who Code, can be downloaded here. The chasm between the number of job openings in today's digital economy and the number of skilled workers available is growing in the wrong direction and threatening the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. Fact No. 1: In 2015, there were 500,000 new computing jobs available in the U.S., but as recently as 2014, fewer than 40,000 new computer science graduates to fill them. This shortage will continue to grow as rapid advances in mobile, cloud, analytics and artificial intelligence technologies continue to redefine business, society and the global economy.