many taiwanese americans work as white collar professionals, many of whom are highly educated, salaried professionals whose work is largely self-directed in management, professional, and related occupations such as engineering, medicine, investment banking, law, and academia. 66.2% of taiwanese americans work in many white collar professions compared 35.9% for the general american population and 48.1% for asian americans. 71.3% of taiwanese men and 60.4% of taiwanese women are in working in management, professional, and related occupations. they also hold some of the lowest unemployment rates in nation with a figure of 4.3% compared to a national rate of 6.9%. some of the prominent technologies companies in the united states have been founded by taiwanese americans such as morris chang (founder of tsmc), min kao (co-founder of garmin), jerry yang (co-founder of yahoo), steve chen (co-founder of youtube), jen-hsun huang (co-founder of nvidia), william wang (founder of vizio), greg tseng (co-founder of tagged), and james chu (founder of viewsonic).