Hillary Clinton’s presidential tech team has less gender diversity than the average tech company, a Daily Caller analysis reveals.
Clinton inadvertently drew attention to her man-heavy geek squad when she shared a tweet critical of her likely GOP presidential opponent, Donald Trump.
The retweet was of a message posted by Kyle Rush, who serves as director of engineering and optimization for Clinton’s campaign.
As a software engineer you can stop Trump. Details here: https://t.co/O8SX1OyDZY
— Kyle Rush (@kylerush) May 4, 2016
The link leads to the Clinton campaign’s tech webpage, which bears a picture of the tech team.
Out of the 31 employees pictured, only eight appear to be women. The 25.8 percent ratio makes the Clinton campaign’s technology team less gender diverse than the average private technology company.
According to a report cited in 2014 by the pro-Clinton Center for American Progress, women hold 30 percent of tech industry jobs. In a recent article at Huffington Post, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki put the ratio at 26 percent.
It is unclear if the picture featured on the campaign’s website includes all of the technology employees working for Clinton. More women could be on the payroll. The Clinton campaign and Rush did not respond to requests for a gender breakdown of the tech staff.
Clinton has complained about the lack of gender diversity and gender equality across a number of industries, including the tech sector.
“We’re going backward in a field that is supposed to be all about moving forward,” she said at the Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women last February, according to a USA Today article.
“We cannot afford to leave all that talent sitting on the sidelines.”
“In our growing multicultural country, inclusivity is not a nice to have. It’s a must have,” added Clinton, who recently said that if she is elected president she will make her cabinet 50 percent women in order to reflect society.
“Companies should be held to account,” the former secretary of state said at the conference.