Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Perceptions as Drivers of Career Outcomes for IT Professionals
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Despite decades of academic discourse and the implementation of various policy and industry interventions, the IT workforce still does not adequately reflect the diversity of the overall working population. In addition to a labor shortage pointing to the need for more technology workers in the future, there is a significant underrepresentation of women and minority ethnicities in the technology industry compared to their overall representation in the workforce [3]. Frequently, industries counter this problem by focusing on the pipeline of skilled and diverse talent in the STEM field, including information systems and computer science [7], and recruiting diverse workers from this pipeline [9].
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