Computer science is not occupied with hispanics or black people

Black and Hispanic people seem less in the technology field.

Hispanic and Black CS HQ

Key ideas

Juan Gilbert felt alone as he did his PHD in Computer science. Despite the size of the university, there were no people who looked like him in the computer-science graduate program.

“I didn’t see another Black person in computer science until more than a decade after high school,” says Gilbert.

He contemplated leaving the field entirely until a Black professor at another university encouraged him to find another program instead.

Why should we care

Black and Hispanic people make up almost 13% and 18% of the US workforce, but they hold only 7% and 8%, respectively, of the jobs in computing.

The proportion of computer-science degrees going to Black students has dropped from more than 11% in 2013 to less than 9% in 2020

This is a problem becuase CS is the way to the future and its fundemtal to all concepts in 2025.

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Created by Saket Karthik