Tech needs attitude change on gender

[Commentary] Reversing gender inequality in tech requires more than money. Our industry needs to be committed to offering the same opportunities to all qualified candidates.

At Fiverr, 41 percent of our total employees are female, and, while this isn't ideal, it's a good start. Perhaps more importantly, 50 percent of our top management at Fiverr is female. And this is a figure we take pride in. We didn't achieve this number by offering egg-freezing benefits to women. We didn't achieve it due to positive discrimination towards women. And we didn't achieve it through an initiative to push for gender equality at the company. We accomplished gender parity at Fiverr by providing all candidates with equal opportunities. I understand that there is no easy fix when inequality has been rooted in workplace culture for generations. But we're innovators, and we solve difficult problems every day. We shouldn't require 80 years or hundreds of millions of dollars to address the issue of gender inequality in our own field.

[Vered Raviv-Schwarz is Chief Operating Officer of Fiverr]