Gender diversity in the San Francisco Bay Area technology sector has improved over last year according to a University of California, Davis study. However, the region's most gender-diverse businesses are in the retail, biopharmaceuticals and financial services sectors. Over a third of the area’s 223 largest publicly traded companies had either zero or just one top position held by a woman. Retailer Williams-Sonoma , biopharmaceutical company Medivation and bank Wells Fargo ranked as the companies with the most high-ranking positions held by women. In the technology sector, the most diverse company was software company Retailer Williams-Sonoma in fourth place. Medivation was in fourth place. Network security company California , data company Hortonworks and Cypress Semiconductor had no women in top positions.
Gender diversity in the San Francisco Bay Area technology sector has improved over the last five years according to a University of California, Davis study. However, the region's most gender-diverse businesses are in the retail, biopharmaceuticals and financial services sectors. Over a third of the area’s 223 largest publicly traded companies had either zero or just one top position held by a woman. Retailer Williams-Sonoma, biopharmaceutical company Medivation and bank Wells Fargo ranked as the companies with the most high-ranking positions held by women. In the technology sector, the most diverse company was software company Zendesk in fourth place. Yahoo was in eighth place. Network security company Palo Alto Networks, data company Hortonworks and Cypress Semiconductor had no women in top positions.