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# Women, minorities lose ground in tech layoffs
- URL: https://werd.io/women-minorities-lose-ground-in-tech-layoffs/
- Published: 2023-01-30T17:54:43.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-30T17:54:43.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“The technology industry has long struggled to recruit a diverse workforce, but the recent spate of cuts by Silicon Valley companies has hit women particularly hard, according to recently published analyses of demographic data from the layoffs. Women and some minorities were particularly vulnerable to layoffs because they were newer to their jobs and occupied roles that companies were less interested in retaining, experts said.” [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/27/diversity-layoffs-meta-facebook/)\]