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Google just hired Ruth Porat, a former Morgan Stanley executive, to be its chief financial officer, and is paying her a reported $70 million. You’d think that’s a sign that things are looking up for women in the tech industry.

The percentage of computing jobs held by women has actually fallen over the past 23 years, according to a new study.

In 2013, just 26 percent of computing jobs in the U.S. were held by women, down from 35 percent in 1990, according to the study released Thursday by the American Association of University Women, a nonprofit that promotes gender equality. During that same period, the number of women earning computing degrees also declined.

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More Tech Services Stats

Best-in-class SaaS companies achieve 5-7% annual revenue churn – equivalent to a loss of $1 out of every $200 each month

The metrics that matter for each sales funnel, vary from one company to the next depending on the steps involved in the funnel

Internet Sales strategies have a significantly lower CAC of just $0.42

Median annual gross dollar churn was 8%, 7%, 6% and 8% in 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013

SaaS IPOs have more than doubled over the last 12 years

In all SaaS businesses there will likely come a moment where they realize that not all customers are created equal

In 2018, the global tech spending is forecast to amount to 3,212 billion U.S. dollars.

Companies that spend more on sales and marketing (as a % of revenue) generally grew at a faster rate than those that spent less

In 2017, Foxconn Technology Group achieved a net income of 135.37 billion New Taiwanese dollars, the equivalent to approximately 4.55 billion U.S. dollars.

For a SaaS business of almost any scale, the valuation impact of better retention is in the tens of millions over time

More Culture Stats

47% of millennials want to work at diverse companies, according to a recent study.

A University of Texas study showed that women ask for $7,000 less than their male counterparts in job interviews

At Twitter, 10 percent of tech roles are staffed by women

Women-led companies have historically performed three times better than those with male CEOs

At Facebook, 15 percent of tech roles are staffed by women

Women in western countries use the internet 17 percent more than their male counterparts

in 2016, women-led companies received $1.46 billion in investments from venture capitalists. Male-led companies, on the other hand, received $58.2 billion

63 percent of the time, women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company

The boom in the industry is creating more jobs for techies. Data reveals there were 627,000 unfilled positions in tech in April 2017

It’s been reported that women who work in computer and mathematical fields earn 80 cents to the dollar that men earn doing the same job