Post on 13-Apr-2017
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Tech Talent: The Alarming Digital Skills Gap
Sinead BuntingEuropean Director of Consumer Marketing, Monster
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“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
Cheris Kramarae, Academic
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Source: Centre for London
Why does it matter?
Why does it matter?
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‘It is within our reach to leapfrog every nation in the world and become the most digital, most connected, most
skilled, most informed on the planet.’Martha Lane Fox
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www.girlsincoding.co.uk
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www.girlsincoding.co.uk
The issues and barriers
CHILDHOOD SOCIALISATION
ROLE MODELS DESELECTING OUT
FLEXIBLE WORKING/EVIRONMEN
TUNCONSCIOUS
BIASEMPLOYER MESSAGING/IMPOSTER SYNDROME
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Work streams
‘The Rooney Rule’
Key Points | Summary
Something that is ‘for everyone’, needs to reflect that. And that
means being built by everyone’
As an industry we need to recruit 1 million tech skilled people by
2020
Companies with a diverse workforce and with females
represented more equally, across all levels, are commercially more
successful.
Lets work together to change the status quo, please sign up to the Tech Talent Charter and together
lets make a difference.
Thank You
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