Women were disproportionately affected by the mass wave of technology company layoffs over the last year, diminishing Big Tech's efforts to push diversity as companies sought to save money.

An estimated 45% of the employees laid off from tech companies between October 2022 and June 2023 were women, according to data provided by Layoffs.fyi to Axios. While that means the majority, 55%, of layoffs were male employees, the layoffs seem to contrast with the low percentage of female tech employees. A 2021 report from the Computing Technology Industry Association found that women make up 26% of the tech workforce nationally.

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Layoffs.fyi attempted to determine the gender breakdown of the self-reported laid-off employees by running a data analysis of 3,404 self-reported layoffs through a gender name analyzer. The data may be limited in scope due to the opt-in nature of the data.

The data could also be skewed based on the nature of the layoffs. The companies laid off more employees in the human resources department than they did tech engineers, according to a separate analysis from Layoffs.fyi.

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Big Tech companies laid off tens of thousands of workers in the last year in an effort to cut costs and diminish company bloat in the post-pandemic economy. Google dismissed 12,000 employees worldwide in January. Meta cut more than 11,000 employees back in November after seeing its stock plummet for the first time last year. Amazon also fired more than 10,000 employees from its corporate offices in November.