Top Companies for Women Technologists 2019 Results
Top Companies for Women Technologists is the only benchmarking program that looks specifically at technical employees and awards companies that are making the most progress toward equity.
This national program from AnitaB.org that identifies key trends around the equity of women technologists in the workforce. First launched in 2011, the program helps organizations identify areas where they can improve, and signals a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that women look for in an employer. This year’s Top Companies participants came from a wide range of industries, including software, financial services, media, retail, and hardware.
All participating organizations agree to utilize a rigorous, standardized definition of the technical workforce, and all comparisons are based on this shared understanding.
At a time when women are significantly underrepresented on teams that are building technologies that shape every aspect of modern life, Top Companies helps point the way to a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future.
In our 9th year, we analyzed data on representation, programs, and policies from 76 companies representing more than 143,000 women technologists. We share company specific insights with participants so they can benchmark their progress and continue to build more inclusive workplaces.
We also publish an Insights Report, examining trends and benchmarks across the industry. At a time when women technologists are significantly underrepresented, Top Companies data helps us clearly understand whether the industry is improving, who is committed to change and advancement, and what policies, procedures, and actions are most effective in driving progress. To help understand what factors may influence representation rates, we look at participants based on technical workforce size (less than 1,000, between 1,000 and 10,000, and greater than 10,000 technical employees) and award the top 25th percentile scoring companies in each size category the Top Companies for Women Technologists Leader designation.
Some stats from the 2019 program:
In 2019, Top Companies data confirmed what works to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. New findings illustrate the programs and policies that have a positive impact for women technologists based on company size. Women’s representation remains lower than men’s at every career level in tech. Underrepresented women of color remain the smallest population in technical roles. Top Companies data shows that progress is not only possible, it is being made, and that with more concerted effort, tech can achieve equity for all women.
More data are needed to drive change, and those data come from organizations. Demonstrate solidarity with the AnitaB.org mission for gender equity by providing complete data to Top Companies, especially in regard to pay equity data, as this is the most timely, vital, and greatest opportunity for achieving equity.
AnitaB.org is proud to name Bank of America, Ultimate Software, and The New York Times as the winners of the 2019 Top Companies Women Technologists program. These three companies had the highest overall score, categorized by the size of their technical workforce.
Top Companies Leaders are companies who scored in the top 25th percentile in their technical workforce size category (less than 1,000, between 1,000-10,000, and greater than 10,000 technical employees). The winners of each size category were announced on the main stage at Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, FL, on October 2, 2019. Companies are listed alphabetically; this list is not a ranking.
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Technical Workforce of <1,000The New York Times Quora, Inc. Securian Financial Group ThoughtWorks |
Technical Workforce of 1,000 – 10,000Airbnb Allstate Insurance Company Blackbaud Citi Experian GEICO Lilly Macy’s Morgan Stanley New York Life Insurance PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Ultimate Software |
Technical Workforce of >10,000Accenture Bank of America IBM |
These companies are hugely instrumental in driving change. By contributing to the industry benchmark and measuring their data against other participants, they demonstrate a commitment to understanding where they are today and learning how they can improve. Companies are listed alphabetically; this list is not a ranking.
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Accenture Adobe ADP Airbnb Akamai Technologies Allstate Insurance Company Amazon.com American Express Aptiv Argonne National Laboratory Automattic Bank of America Blackbaud BNY Mellon Capital One Carbon Black Inc. Cisco Systems Citi Dell Discover Financial Services eBay Electronic Arts Expedia Experian Fast Enterprises |
GEICO GoDaddy Goldman, Sachs & Co. Groupon, Inc. Grubhub HERE Technologies HP Inc. IBM Intel Corporation Intuit Kohl’s Lilly Macy’s Microsoft Corporation Morgan Stanley Morningstar, Inc. Nationwide NetApp New Relic New York Life Insurance The New York Times Nike, Inc. Northwestern Mutual Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP |
Qualcomm Quora, Inc. S&P Global Salesforce SAS Institute Schrodinger Securian Financial Group Service Now Slalom Snap Inc. State Farm Susquehanna International Group LLP Target Thomson Reuters ThoughtWorks Two Sigma Investments Ultimate Software Vanguard Verizon Visa Wayfair Workiva Yelp Yext, Inc. Zillow |
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