![]() Half of women who enter the industry drop out by age 35, according to data from Accenture. (The share of master’s degrees in computer science going to women has increased slightly.) But even if the pipeline is being fixed, retaining women in the tech sector is tricky. More women than ever are taking, and gaining, degree-level qualifications in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, according to the National Science Foundation-though the proportion of women getting undergraduate computer science degrees has dropped by nearly 20 percentage points in the past 40 years. ![]() “Without that context, the bias of the data set is unknown, and it’s well documented that gender bias is frequently built into technology, from variable names to form fields to assumptions about occupations, roles, and capabilities.” And worse, it removes important context for the data that is scraped and fed into large language models,” says Catherine Flick, a computing and social responsibility scholar at De Montfort University. ![]() “Removing gender from the annual survey is an egregious erasure of the problems of the gender gap that pervade the tech industry. Whatever the reasons for removing key questions about who’s using the platform, the survey results-or lack of them-highlight a problem with Stack Overflow’s user demographics, and a broader issue across tech: Non-male participants are woefully underrepresented. “If we are serious about increasing diversity in tech, then we need to know what the landscape looks like.” Devlin points out that it’s difficult to measure progress-or regression-without a baseline of data. “It's common knowledge that tech has a gender problem,” she says. This included providing advisory expertise and managing the marketing, negotiation and due diligence phases of the transaction.However, that’s small comfort to Kate Devlin, a reader in artificial intelligence and society at King’s College, London. Lincoln acted as the exclusive sell-side advisor to Stack-On, working closely with the management team and shareholder throughout the sale process. ![]() The iconic brands, best-in-class products, and combined operating strength of the two companies uniquely position the combined business for continued market leadership.” Stack-On manufactures and distributes home safes, gun security products, garage storage and organizational products under the Stack-On, Sovereign and Sentinel brand names and is highly regarded for its strong reputation in design, sourcing and distribution, serving the full range of retailers through its go-to-market strategies, category management capabilities and high quality services.ĭon Pannier, Executive Vice President for Stack-On, commented, “We are excited for this new chapter in Stack-On’s legacy and the opportunity to partner with the Cannon Safe team in continuing to drive the expansion of the secure storage sector.”Ĭhris Stradling, Managing Director in Lincoln’s Consumer Group, added, “We congratulate the teams from Stack-On and Cannon Safe on this transaction. Stack-On, based in Illinois, was founded by John Lynn in 1972 and is a leading supplier of secure storage and home organization solutions with over 45 years of proven success. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. (“Cannon Safe”) with a supporting investment from MidOcean Partners (“MidOcean”). Lincoln International (“Lincoln”), a leading global mid-market investment bank, is pleased to announce that Stack-On Products (“Stack-On” or the “Company”) has been sold to Cannon Safe, Inc. 2017 Stack-On Products has been sold to Cannon Safe and MidOcean Partners ![]()
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