Kate's Comment

As a child, I fondly remember my Dad telling me how we lived in the same village (Horsley) as the world’s first computer programmer, a British woman called Ada Lovelace. From those illustrious beginnings, in Britain today, women now account for only 11% of IT professionals working within the IT industry, according to the Women in IT scorecard.

Why IT companies should look at who costs more before making redundancies; some employees (eg. men) cost 23% more for the same job! Press release in response to news that the recession would dramatically increase unemployment among women.

This post has now been superseded by my updated