Abstract
For an industry that saw women drive some of its earliest development, IT has become intensely male-dominated. The latest statistics from a-Skills UK, published in summer 2014, claimed that fewer than one in five workers involved in IT in the UK are women. Other countries in Europe do little better. The best performers are Greece and Ireland, but even in those countries women account for only 25 per cent of the IT workforce. Yet women represented the majority of those who would program the first computers. As anew industry, this perhaps should not be a surprise. Without the accumulation of decades of custom and practice and as a fast-growing sector, IT had the opportunity to forge ground in a post-war society that was meant to be more egalitarian.
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