Why is it that, while women make up 49% of the UK labour force, they account for just 17% of IT and telecom professionals? What’s more, the promotion and visibility of Marissa Mayer, the recently promoted Yahoo chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the number two at Facebook, comes as the number of women in the(…)
A new website that promises to teach people to code by ‘leveraging sexual desire’ has been branded “the worst thing on the internet this week” and the embodiment of “everything wrong with tech culture” – although no-one’s sure if it’s a spoof. Launched last week, CodeBabes features a string of short videosintroducing users to coding(…)
The British Computing Society are running a month long campaign to encourage women of all ages, from young students to women returners, to consider a career in IT and join the profession. Throughout May, 30 influential women in IT are volunteering to act as role models and, through blogs and video interviews, share their stories and(…)
