Fremont Makes Top 10 List For Women in Tech

FREMONT, CA — It’s an undeniable fact that women are often underrepresented in the tech industry and that gender pay inequality persists across the country, despite women’s key contributions to the economy. According to a recent report from the National Center for Women & Technology, women make up 57 percent of the professional workforce but only 25 percent of the workforce in computer-related positions.

However, the City of Fremont ranked as the 6th Best City for Women in Tech in 2017—with one of the smallest gaps in gender pay and highest ratio of female tech workers—by SmartAsset. This is Fremont’s third year in a row making the list.

In Fremont, 27 percent of mathematical and computer related jobs are filled by women and the average salary for women in tech is 16 percent less than their male counterparts. Fremont’s income after housing is one of the highest in the nation at $68,180, and its four-year tech employment growth rate is also among the highest on the list, landing at 28 percent.

To pull this study together, SmartAsset analyzed Census Bureau data around 59 of the largest U.S. cities in which there are enough tech workers to prove statistically reliable and compared them across four metrics: gender pay gap, income after housing costs, women as a percentage of tech workforce, and four-year tech employment growth.

Fremont is the only California city ranked in the top 15 and this is Fremont’s third year listed in the top 10.

The full study can be found online.

-Announcement from City of Fremont; Image via Pixabay