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Tech at Mintel: Focusing on gender diversity

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The Tech at Mintel series shines a spotlight on our global IT department and how some of the industry’s best and brightest build Mintel’s modern, agile, and scalable technology backbone. Mintel Technology teams have grown significantly over the past year, but women are still hugely underrepresented in the tech industry. Part of the challenge is changing the […]

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