Fifty percent of women interviewed for this PwC UK research report said the most important factor when choosing their career is “feeling like the work I do makes the world a better place/has a wider impact”. The corresponding figure for men was only 31 percent. Females rate the opportunity to make the world a better place as the second most attractive attribute of a career, with only “having interesting work” ranking higher for them. The gap between men and women studying and working in technology remains socially unjustifiable, and unfair. The report also notes that as the gender gap prevents women from playing their proper role in shaping the future of society also vis-a-vis the potential of technology to make the world a better place.
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