Women represent an untapped labor market needed to fill out the Nashville technology workforce. The Greater Nashville Technology Council reported there was a more than 1,500-person labor deficit in technology jobs in the region in 2014 — and the sector has grown 30 percent since then. In 2018, the number of tech jobs in Middle Tennessee, defined here as Davidson and 14 surrounding counties, totaled 49,465, according to research by Middle Tennessee State University Professor Amy Harris.

That was an increase of 7.3 percent from the mark of 2017 and grew the tech sector’s share of all jobs in the region to nearly 4.3 percent.