The humanities are more important for senior leadership than technical 
skill or domain knowledge. The best CTOs have a strong command of language 
and a good sense of people, in addition to their technical background. And 
you get that from studying the humanities, whether formally or informally. 
The humanities exposes one to the nuances of the human experience. 
Technical skill only focuses on machines, abstract or concrete, not how 
they affect the people who build them or the people who use them. A tech 
leader with letters under their belt is more likely to succeed at the top 
than one with only numbers in their toolbox.

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The Paper Ceiling campaign is pushing for more openness to workers with diverse education backgrounds. The initiative caps a decades-long shift in focus away from on the humanities to the technical arts in corporate hiring practices. But an over emphasis on STEM to address the competitive pressures from the global market has also led to a wholesale abandonment of the humanities.

STEM Blindness — Startup Patterns