The injustices of the pandemic have been well-documented. Efforts to address those injustices are less prevalent. Candice Dixon wants to change the stories women, especially women of color, tell.
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Bertina Ceccarelli, CEO of NPower, discusses plans to bring more women of color into the technology field with Bloomberg Businessweek Radio.
NPower, a group that urges tech companies to focus on skills-based hiring, just received a $15 million gift from MacKenzie Scott to further its mission.
This vast underrepresentation in the market also affects the Black women in tech who are facing challenges being the only one in their company.
In an interview with Authority Magazine, NPower Director Candice Dixon discusses Command Shift, The Equation for Equality and what companies must do to attract great talent, especially women of color.
The tech industry is often considered an elite space for well-educated workers who command the highest paying jobs. One of the (many) problems with this narrative is that recruiters are often overlooking qualified candidates in a search for résumés that check all the boxes.
New research finds overlapping skills should afford that jump from non-tech to tech.
Equity-focused nonprofit NPower and Emsi Burning Glass said their data reveals that 2.6 million women of color have tech-similar skills to fill vacant tech jobs.
Women of color occupy less than 5% of tech jobs, even though they make up 20% of the workforce. But the “pipeline problem” is a myth–many of these women are ready and able to take positions in tech.
NPower’s Command Shift, a Coalition of Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and other leading organizations, commits to increasing the number of nontraditional tech talent – specifically, underserved women of color – in the tech industry from 5% to 10% over ten years.
