Hugo,
a San Francisco-based productivity software company, today announced the
results of Developing
a Foundational Approach to Gender Equity in Tech, a study tracking
the impact collaboration software has on gender equity in the technology
industry. Hugo will present the study results during a panel hosted at
Atlassian’s San Francisco headquarters on May 8.
“With this study, we set out to understand gender equity in tech through
the lens of collaboration tools and have found that workflow technology
plays a pivotal role in fostering inclusion,” said Josh Lowy, CEO of
Hugo. “The study revealed that through the integration of workflow
tools, companies can build strong internal structures, cultivate
transparency, build trust across their organization and enable greater
contribution from diverse perspectives.”
In collaboration with Advancing
Women in Product (AWIP),
Hugo worked to gather and analyze data gleaned from the experiences of
580 professionals across the United States. The resultant survey report,
published in partnership with Atlassian,
BlueJeans,
and Freshworks,
uncovers the challenges of diverse perspectives in the technology
industry, and identifies actionable recommendations for cultivating
balanced teams in technology fields.
“Over the last few years, the tech industry hasn’t made significant
progress in building more equitable organizations or cultures where
everyone–no matter their background–feels like they can belong,” said
Aubrey Blanche, Global Head of Diversity & Belonging at Atlassian.
“Company-level initiatives can unintentionally exclude the most
marginalized, and often leave front-line team members unsure of their
role in creating change. This new report offers a new perspective on how
to use modern collaboration tools to build more fair and inclusive
cultures by highlighting ways to improve how all people are heard and
valued on their teams.”
Key findings of the Developing a Foundational Approach to Gender Equity
in Tech study include:
-
While 55 percent of women felt the most heard in meetings, 25 percent
of women felt that their voices were sometimes subdued, always
subdued, or that they had no voice at all in meetings -
20 percent of all respondents that identified as Asian, Black or
African American, Latinx, or Mixed Race felt that their voices were
actively subdued in meetings -
Only 10 percent of men reported that their voices were sometimes
subdued -
Overall, 26 percent of respondents said that gender differences exist
in their work environment, with 57 percent more women and non-binary
genders agreeing with this statement than men -
4.46 percent of males said their workplace is bad because gender
differences are prevalent or everywhere, while 13.58 percent of women
said the same
The panel at Atlassian headquarters will be moderated by Alexa Dennett,
Head of Marketing and Communications, Wing at Google’s Moonshot Factory
and panelists include Elizabeth Kinsey, Developer Marketing Manager at
Slack; Delyn Simons, Director of Product Marketing, Platform at Shopify
and Aubrey Blanche, Global Head of Diversity & Belonging at Atlassian.
For more information and to download the full report, please visit: http://www.genderequity.team
About Hugo
San Francisco-based Hugo builds connected meeting notes software, which
means meeting notes are connected with the people and tools in your
organization. Hugo achieves this through 20 integrations with work apps,
including your calendar. You can easily pull up meeting notes by
searching by contact, organization, date, and what was in the note. You
can collaborate on agendas and notes in real-time, @mention teammates
and create tasks in your project management tool. Hugo then shares
meeting insights in Slack and syncs to your CRM — all from within your
meeting notes.
With Hugo, collaboration becomes easy, and the team knows what’s
happening whether or not they were in the room. For more information,
please visit www.hugo.team.
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