Gender diversity in the San Francisco Bay Area technology sector has improved over last year according to a University of California, Davis study. In the technology sector, the most diverse player was software company Zendesk, tied for No. 4. 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 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.