Accenture Sets its Sights on a 50/50 Workforce by 2025

AnitaB.org is proud to offer Top Companies for Women Technologists, a national program to recognize organizations building workplaces where women technologists can thrive. In 2017, we evaluated 63 companies, accounting for a workforce of more than 574,000 technologists. Top Companies is the only program that provides a consistent benchmark of the technical workforce across a wide range of industries.

We’ve expanded Top Companies this year from a single award to four, in order to better reward companies making a commitment to women in the technical workforce. In addition to three awards based on technical workforce size — less than 1,000 employees, 1,000 to 10,000 employees, and more than 10,000 employees — this year we introduced a new Momentum award, recognizing a company that showed a significant growth in women technologists in senior and executive roles.

Accenture, one of the largest consulting firms in the world which uses an innovation-led approach to help clients imagine and invent their future, earned the highest total score for a company with a technical workforce of over 10,000 employees.

“We are honored to be recognized by AnitaB.org for our efforts to develop and advance women in technology,” said Paul Daugherty, the company’s Chief Technology and Innovation Officer. “Our commitment to gender equality starts at the top, and we believe it makes us a stronger, smarter and more innovative company.”

Accenture recently announced that it will achieve a gender-balanced workforce — 50 percent women and 50 percent men — by 2025. In addition, Accenture created the Women in Technology program, which helps fast-track the careers of high-performing women toward the position of Technical Architect, a high-demand role within the firm.

We’re proud to recognize Accenture’s leadership in supporting women technologists, and to help the company quantify its progress toward a more equitable workplace. If you’d like to join the ranks of companies that measure what matters, preregister for our 2018 Top Companies for Women Technologists program. You’ll receive important updates on Top Companies deadlines, and be able to start gathering data for for your submissions next April.