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I also think there are a lot of women who ARE women in tech, but who define themselves as marketing people, or managers, or PR people or designers, or researchers who just happen to only ever work in the tech sector. I’m not sure if there is something we need to do about this, although I’m starting a personal (informal) research project to better understand why these women exclude themselves from the ‘women in tech’ label. Perhaps it’s the information architect in me, but I have a feeling that a lot of this is taxonomy / labeling related.

disambiguity » Practical Solutions for the (lack of) Women in Tech issue

If I’m not mistaken, this is a problem in many other industries, for example, the health industry. The women in these sectors tend to be defined as having support roles to the sector, even when they are highly specialised experts and a dedicated, essential, part of the sector and are vital to its function.

This is standard operating procedure and a part of the problem, IMO. Not sure how to solve it, though.