An organization focused on bringing more women into the technology industry is closing its doors in Miami and other cities.
Gender Equality in Tech (GET) Cities announced it is disbanding after five years in operation. Headquartered in Chicago, the national initiative aimed to create pathways to bring more under represented groups into the largely white and male-dominated technology industry. Those groups include women, nonbinary people, indigenous people and people of color.
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The initiative was led by the SecondMuse Foundation and Break Through Tech in partnership with Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda French Gates.
GET Cities will work with nonprofits in Miami, Chicago and Washington,D.C. to continue some of its work.
"Over these past several years, we designed interventions, built partnerships and networks, and scaled collaborative pilots to advance gender-inclusive ecosystems," said Executive Lead Carrie Freeman. "This transition is the natural segue to further the catalytic groundwork we have activated across our cities and networks."
Community impact accelerator Radical Partners will lead that effort locally. The company has partnered with GET Cities Miami since its launch in 2021.
Women make up about a quarter of the U.S. tech workforce, despite the fact that research shows that gender-diverse businesses tend to be more profitable.
The Miami-area stands out as the nation's most culturally and racially diverse market for tech graduates, with more than 70% of the region's graduates coming from underrepresented backgrounds, according to the CBRE 2023 Scoring Tech Talent Report. But South Florida was least diverse area for women tech degree graduates out of the major metros analyzed.
"We look forward to expanding this work and bringing gender equity at the core of all of our initiatives," said Joan Godoy, CEO of Radical Partners.
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