Experts Discuss How to Achieve Greater Gender Equality in the Tech Industry

There has been significant progress in the area of gender diversity in the technology industry, but much more work is required, according to a panel speaking on a webinar during Women’s History Month.

The discussion came on the back of Kaspersky’s recent Women in tech report, in partnership with Ada’s List, a global community for women in tech. This study highlighted that a lot of progress is being made in improving representation of women in the tech industry, with over half (56%) of female respondents agreeing that gender equality has improved in their organization over the past two years.

This has been the experience too of Claire Hatcher, head of business development, Kaspersky Fraud Prevention, who explained that when she started in the industry around 15 years ago, “I was often the only woman at the table in meetings and regularly one of very few women in the room in general. However, over the years, I’m happy to see more women are coming up through the ranks and also seeing more women in engineering and R&D roles, and there is a significant portion of female leaders as well.”

Businessman Tim Campbell MBE, a small business advocate, concurred with this, but cautioned that it is important to not get complacent. In particular, he believes there needs to be a greater focus on outlining the tech career options available to school- and college-aged girls. “I am really imploring employers, ERG Group leaders and politicians to be doing much more around adv ..

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