This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #BreakTheBias, which women in tech are using as a platform to highlight the sector’s long-running and deep-rooted issues.
Female tech founders, entrepreneurs and executives have welcomed the strides made towards gender equality in the UK tech industry, but have cautioned on International Women’s Day that there’s much more that needs to be done.
Women working in UK tech told UKTN that improvements need to be made at every level – from funding to recruitment to leadership roles. They also shared some of the steps that need to be taken to improve gender equality in tech.
“Equality in any industry, but specifically tech, still has a way to go,” says Konstantia Barmpatsalou, security DevOps engineer at London-based cybersecurity company Obrela Security Industries....