IT industry needs more female role models says software boss
The CEO of an AIM-listed West Midlands technology company has said women need more role models to bridge the gender gap in IT.
Elizabeth Gooch, founder of Staffordshire-based eg solutions, said gender stereotyping was holding back women from fulfilling their true potential.
Currently, only 17% of employees in the UK technology sector are women; only one in six school leavers starting a degree in computer science in 2016 was female and the total number of girls taking either ICT or computer science at GCSE fell by 12% in the same... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
