1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… THESE ARE THE REAL FIGURES
Whilst many of the headline figures for 2014’s Women in IT Scorecard report are still negative, there are some points of optimism in the thorny issue of gender diversity in IT. E-skills and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, have updated their scorecard for gender representation in the IT industry – a robust and rigorous exposition of an issue that still surprises in the 21st century. Brian Runciman, MBCS, reports.
We need to start with setting out the problem. Despite the fairly high profile of this issue, the trend for representation of women in IT over the last decade is actually slightly down, with current figures showing just 20 per cent in the industry as a whole.
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