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New York and San Francisco tech industries are leaving women behind

The two cities, sometimes rivals for attracting tech talent, slid backwards in recent years on gender diversity

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Nikitha Sattiraju | Bloomberg
San Francisco and New York have created thousands of lucrative jobs in technology, but despite efforts to increase diversity in the industry, women are still being left behind.

The two cities, sometimes rivals for attracting tech talent, slid backwards in recent years on gender diversity, according to data from SmartAsset, a financial technology company that provides personal finance advice online. From 2013 to 2018 they either did worse or made little progress on women’s workforce participation in tech and gender pay gaps.

“No single city or no city’s tech sector has figured this out,” said Eli Dvorkin, editorial and policy director at

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