Closing the Diversity Gap in the Infrastructure Industry /

This paper examines whether women and visible In recent years, there has been intense interest in examining minorities are represented in the leadership of the infrastructure industry in proportion to their representation the gender and racial diversity of the high-tech, engineering, in the overall workforce.1 As we will argue, identifying the business, academic, and media workforces. [...] High-profile firms diversity gap in the leadership of the infrastructure sector like Google and Uber have been strongly criticized for both and the masculine culture that predominates in the sector the lack of diversity in their executive ranks and a male- is important. [...] Then we present data on the current taking, and adversarial relationships.5 This macho industry level of gender and racial diversity in the leadership of the culture may be an increasing liability in a world in which global infrastructure and urban tech industry, and explain successful urban infrastructure projects require collaboration, the existing diversity gap. [...] Fourth, a lack of diversity in the infrastructure industry Workforce diversity typically refers to the representation can limit the pool of available talent, if highly qualified of people of different genders, races, ethnicities, sexual women and people from racial minorities do not see the orientations, disabilities, sector as an attractive and ages in the workplace. [...] The low share of women in the infrastructure support innovations that transform the way infrastructure is industry stands in contrast to recent World Bank figures provided and used in transportation, mapping, sustainable – 3 – Closing the Diversity Gap in the Infrastructure Industry Table 1: Diversity of Smart-City Tech Company Founders Company Name Type of Company Country of Firm Founder Gender o