By Josh Graff, UK Country Manager, LinkedIn
One of LinkedIn’s fantastic software engineers, Ya Xu, recently returned from a visit to the university where she studied Computer Science and became aware of a very prominent issue – the number of women taking the class hadn’t improved since she left. In fact, it had declined.
When we conducted a new analysis of LinkedIn data to mark this year’s Girls in ICT Day, we discovered that this was no coincidence.
The proportion of female ICT graduates is decreasing – dropping to just 19% in 2018. Whereas 9% of all male graduates now enter the sector, only 2% of female graduates do. ICT is becoming more attractive to young men but less attractive to young women....