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. Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo, participates in a panel discussion at the 2015 Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco, California November 3, 2015. In the technology sector, the most diverse company was software company Zendesk in fourth place. The study also found that women were more likely than men to hold leadership roles at tech companies. Network security company Palo Alto Networks, 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. The study also found that women were more likely than men to hold leadership roles at tech companies. Network security company Palo Alto Networks, data company Hortonworks and Cypress Semiconductor had no women in top positions.