BOULDER — A website promoting the coworking industry has ranked Boulder the best small metropolitan area for women working in technology jobs.
List prepared by CoworkingCafe Best U.S. subways for women working in tech In commemoration of International Women's Day on March 8th.
“With 88.7 tech jobs per 1,000 job openings, we have the highest number of registrations of any small metropolitan area, and we also have the highest number of coworking spaces per 100,000 residents (7.9) in the nation. boulder “It stood out as the perfect small metropolitan area for female tech workers,” CoworkingCafe editors wrote. “The local presence of giant technology companies such as Apple, Google, IBM, and Oracle underscores the region’s status as a technology haven. Our Technology Hub designation highlights our commitment to cutting-edge technology.”
Coworking Cafe ranked Boulder ninth among small metropolitan areas for the percentage of female workers with health insurance, at 63.4%.
The editors analyzed 208 metropolitan areas across a variety of relevant metrics, including the share of female technical workers among total technical professionals, female technical income, and unemployment rates. To reflect a fair comparison, they categorized large cities into her three population categories: small, medium, and large. San Jose, Calif., ranked first among metropolitan areas, while North Carolina's “Research Triangle” cities of Durham and Chapel Hill ranked top among medium-sized metropolitan areas for women in high tech.
San Jose, Boulder, and Seattle had the highest percentages of technology-related jobs among metropolitan areas of all sizes analyzed.
At the University of Colorado Boulder, National Center for Women's Information Technology and Business and Engineering Women in Technology.
CoworkingCafe is a branch of Yardi Systems Inc., a Santa Barbara, California-based company that develops and supports investment and property management software for real estate companies.
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