This survey asks: "What percentage of architects in your organization are female?
Respondents replied with the percentage of females within their business architecture teams and/or the percentage of females within their enterprise architecture* teams. We have provided a summary of the results where you can see both percentages (if provided) side by side for each respondent.
* Generally assumed to encompass a superset of roles that include enterprise architect, business architect, application architect, data architect, and technical architect, unless respondents indicated otherwise.
Here are a few takeaways from this survey:
- The team sizes reported by most respondents were small, both from a business architecture and enterprise architecture perspective. (View the survey on Business Architecture Team Size for reference.)
- 62% of the business architecture teams have an equal balance of female team members (or greater up to 100%).
- 25% of the enterprise architecture teams have an equal balance of female team members (or greater up to 100%).
A few selected thoughtful comments from respondents are below.
- “The percentage of female EAs is very low in Saudi Arabia as the domain is male dominant (similar situation as IT). Most managerial positions are led by males as well, even though they have limited knowledge of EA or even certified.”
- “I have contributed to many Indian IT service organizations with clients based out of the US, UK, Gulf, Singapore. (Domains include Banking/Finance, Healthcare, Life Science, Government, Oil & Gas, etc.). Only in the delivery organization can I see a few female faces, but not in the EA Team and certainly not any single female face in business architecture.”
- “I work as an Enterprise Business Architect for a small consultancy company in a small team of 4 architects. I am the only woman. Prior to my current employment, I worked in Financial Services as a Business Architect. At one stage, there was a big Architecture team of around 20 different domain architects. Again, I was the only woman in the team.”
According to one key statistic, about 13%* of enterprise architect roles are held by women. The power of diversity is what makes architecture strong and together we can change this! earn more about the Women In Architecture global initiative created to accelerate the pathway for women in architecture and amplify the impact of the entire discipline worldwide. Join the community for free!
* Based on the data here indicating that 12.3% of all enterprise architects are women while 87.7% are men: https://www.zippia.com/enterprise-architect-jobs/demographics/#gender-statistic. While limited, we still believe that this data is directionally accurate and indicative of the gender gap across all domains of enterprise architecture worldwide
