Report: NYC tech sector employs 40 percent women, 21 percent minorities

Companies like Google, Apple, Intel, and Yahoo have been relatively forthright about their diversity hiring numbers, particularly in the form of reports that reveal lower representations of women and minorities in those companies' tech-specific fields. But those studies only speak to one company at a time—what about a study that pools from federal or state statistics on tech-sector employment?

Thanks to data made available by New York's Federal Reserve Bank, the Center for an Urban Future published its own state-specific report on Thursday. It's pretty broad, parsing 2014 employment numbers at all companies who use "technology as their core business strategy." In some cases, the reports also compares those figures to similar data from 2004. The biggest takeaway was greater representation of women in tech in New York City than at any of the aforementioned major tech companies.

Center for an Urban Future

The total tally, according to the CUF, is 40 percent, and the report goes further than listing a "tech/non-tech" split of genders. The report's numbers have been broken down into seven discrete categories—computer manufacturing, systems design, data processing/hosting, electronic shopping, publishing/broadcasting, scientific R&D, and software publishing—and it shows women dominating the R&D category at 59 percent while lagging in the software publishing sector at only 32 percent.