What does the future for women in IT hold? Proportional representation? Equal pay? More female CIOs? Boundless opportunities? The current stats aren’t particularly optimistic. Only one-in-six tech specialists in the UK are women, only one-in-ten are IT leaders and, worse still, despite significant growth in the number of women working in IT roles, female representation […]
Women in IT The tide is turning. Organisations are slowly starting to recognise the benefits of employing more women in the technology sector. Only one-in-six of tech specialists in the UK are women, compared with 47% of the entire workforce, research from the Tech Partnership’s Women in IT scorecard reveals. Worse still, fewer than one-in-ten […]
Why work in technology? What do you want from your career? Whether you’re motivated by money, want to make a difference, passionate about a specific cause or industry or crave fast-paced career development, the technology sector will bring all of these benefits, and more, your way. Yet, as it stands, a major gender imbalance remains. […]
Victoria’s Secret model, Karlie Kloss is one of the most famous and highest paid models in the world, but modelling isn’t her only skill. As well as mastering her runway walk, Karlie Kloss is eager to close the gender gap in technology and encourage women to become tech professionals. After making headlines in 2015 with […]
The Information Technology or IT sector has been one of the industries which were historically heavily male dominated, but now this situation is reversing as more and more women see this as a viable career. Nowadays women are taking up roles as Programme Managers, IT Directors, CIOs and more technical positions as Developers, Enterprise Architects […]
Influential women in tech The number of women in IT and technology roles has always been dramatically lower than that of men. Employers are trying their utmost to employ more women in the sector but there seems to be a lack of women entering the tech sector. This is mainly due to IT and technology […]
Contracting for women in tech Contracting for women in tech is an increasingly popular way of working, and every contractor has their own reasons for enjoying it. Being a contractor means you will work for somebody else for a fixed period under a fixed contract to complete a task or project. You’re effectively selling your […]
Women have come a long way in the workplace in terms of what roles they are involved in. Stereotypical men’s jobs such as plumbing, building and working in the military have become more popular for women. However, women still make up a very small percentage of the IT and Technology sector with just over a […]