While great efforts have been made to get girls interested in Stem subjects, little is done to encourage men into teaching and nursing. The lack of women choosing to study science subjects at university has sparked both angst and action. Nearly 30 years ago the Wise Campaign was set up to inspire more girls to(…)
In an article by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman in the Atlantic, they report evidence that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Read on …. This echoes a study by Tassabehji and Vakola (2005) where they found the same confidence gap between men and women related to computer skills. Read on …
The following statistics from the Women’s Engineering Society show a worrying picture for women working in technology and the future of the UK. Only 6% of the engineering workforce in the UK is female (1) Only 5.5% of engineering professionals are female and only 27% of engineering and science technicians are female (2) Only 5.3%(…)
It’s common knowledge that women are underrepresented in tech jobs, but what about their representation in the tech world as a whole? Here are statistics that shed some light on both Read on ….
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(…)
Open Mind series on how the internet is changing our lives. You can download the essays from here
Male dominance in the field is bad for women, and bad for the industry, as well. Across the technology sector there is a major disparity between men and women. While 57 percent of occupations in the workforce are held by women, in computing occupations that figure is only 25 percent. Of chief information officer jobs (CIOs) at Fortune(…)
It is not clear whether CodeBabes was a spoof or gimmick or even joke – but it unleashed a storm on twitter and caused some consternation among many in the tech industry (women especially) http://www.onthemedia.org/story/codebabes-worst-thing/. Using semi-naked women in different stages of undress to “sell” web development courses at different stages of “difficulty” (virgin to(…)
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(…)
