Last year, we published some data here at the IAPP showing that the privacy profession is, in large part, gender balanced. There are roughly the same amount of women as men working in privacy, they’re at roughly the same levels in their organizations, and, in the U.S. at least, they’re within about 5 percent of each other in mean pay (yeah, the guys are higher). You gotta squint just a bit, but that looks like equality. Partly because of that, we’re often asked why, then, we need a Women Leading Privacy group here at the IAPP. To which IAPP Publications Director Sam Pfeifle says: “Dudes! C’mon,” in this piece for Privacy Perspectives.
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