Newly released federal data shows the US tech workforce is younger than the workforce at large and getting younger still.
Tech workers under 25 are becoming more common, while the proportion of workers older than 40 shrinks.
There's an age-old perception that tech workers should be young so they can move fast and break things.
One of the top qualifications to land a tech job, it seems, is to possess a birth certificate dated after 1990.
Women make up just 22% of tech workers — the same proportion of jobs they held in 2005.
Persons:
Z, Mark Zuckerberg, Maureen Clough, antiaging serums, Joanna Lahey, Lahey, ageism, John Zeman, Elon Musk, Zeman, John Rizzo, Rizzo, X, Daniel Jolles, Jolles, they're, Amanda Hoover
Organizations:
Tech, Commission, Texas, M University, Twitter, IBM, The London School of Economics, Business
Locations:
Silicon Valley, China