{"id":9723,"date":"2018-10-03T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2018-10-31T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:42:45","slug":"the-growing-participation-of-women-in-the-data-science-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-growing-participation-of-women-in-the-data-science-community\/9723\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Participation of Women in the Data Science Community"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in KDNuggets, September 2018 Research indicates data science is a promising career path, and it\u2019s a field likely to offer job security and growth for the foreseeable future. Women are still significantly underrepresented, though. Statistics across multiple studies confirm females only fill about 15 percent of data scientist roles, although some investigations show totals approximately 10 percent higher. We still have a long way to go before the gender representation becomes more equalized, but the field at large indicates hopeful trends about women working in the role or desiring to do so in the future. Rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/the-growing-participation-of-women-in-the-data-science-community\/9723\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in KDNuggets, September 2018 Research indicates data science is a promising career path, and it\u2019s a field likely to offer job security and growth for the foreseeable future. Women are still significantly underrepresented, though. Statistics across multiple studies confirm females only fill about 15 percent of data scientist roles, although some investigations show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9778,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions\/9778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}