Data centres: The nasty secret of Big Tech
As data centres take off in South Africa, women are conspicuously absent. It’s a trend that runs through the global IT sector. What’s to be done about the gender imbalance?
07 September 2023 - 05:00
South Africa is seeing a boom in the construction of multimillion-rand data centres as companies move their IT infrastructure into the cloud. But take a closer look at the sector and a nasty statistic rears its head.
“Women currently hold 19% of tech-related jobs relative to men,” Jan Mentz, academic dean of Belgium Campus iTversity, tells the FM. “This gap worsens in the data centre field, with less than 10% of the workforce in the data centre industry consisting of women.” ..
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