Since the sun just set on the last decade, now is the ideal time to examine the top ten trends that shaped gender equity from the past ten years.
We saw the rise of artificial intelligence and biased algorithms in the past ten years. This trend highlights the Women represent a meager 22% of the world’s AI practitioners, and that 28-point gender gap helps explain why biased AI exists. Homogenous teams of engineers program unconscious biases into AI systems. Historic inequities then become cemented into future decision-making.
As our dependence on AI grows, combating these inequities in the future of work will become all the more critical. Organizations stand to benefit from this push toward equity: A 10) The Equal Rights Amendment resurfaced. The ERA turned 96 years old in 2019, but by year's end, it had yet to be ratified by the necessary number of states in order to become part of the Constitution. Nevada the 36th state to ratify the ERA in 2017. Illinois followed suit in 2018, and at the beginning of 2020, Virginia became the critical 38th state to ratify the ERA.
We can’t afford to wait another ten decades to reach parity. As the momentum of the 2020 New Year celebrations wear off, let’s think about what we want the next decade’s top ten gender equity trends to be. Will the 2020s be the decade that closes the gender equity gap once and for all?
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