Best Buy Co. Inc. is joining Melinda Gates and 10 major companies in an effort to double the number of women of color who graduate with computing degrees by 2025, the Richfield, Minn.-based company said Wednesday.
In 2017, women held 26 percent of jobs in the computing workforce. Black women held just 3 percent of computing jobs and Latinas 1 percent, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
A McKinsey study released Wednesday is even more stark: It found the share…
