Gender Inequality Persists in Data Science and AI

Results of a survey of data professionals show that about 1 out of 5 are women. Women are paid less than their male counterparts yet both women and men have similar levels of education. Ways of improving gender diversity in the field of data science are offered. Even though women make up about half of the total workforce in the US, those numbers hide the disparities in some occupational domains. As you can see in Figure 1, while women make up about half of the life, physical and social science occupations in the US, they only account for 25% and 17% of the professionals in computer and mathematical occupations and architecture and engineering occupations, respectively.