“Unless we make a change, the future of tech will look just like it does today,”  cautioned YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at last week’s Grace Hopper Celebration, a gathering which brought together over 12,000 female technologists. For Wojcicki, the bleak statistics around women in this industry shouldn’t just be a wake up call for much-needed change, but rather our country’s next “Sputnik” moment. Women, for example, hold just 26% of all jobs in tech and by 2020, jobs in computer science are projected to grow three times faster than the national average. “If women don’t participate in tech, they are losing the chance to influence the largest economic and social shift of this century,” said Wojcicki. “It threatens our country’s continued economic prominence and risks our future competitiveness. And it should awaken all of us to act,” she argued.

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