Intel Says it Paid its Male and Female Employees Equally in 2015 

This is the first time Intel has undertaken an analysis of company-wide compensation, says chief diversity officer Danielle Brown, noting that when the results came back at 100% parity, she and her team “nearly fell out of our chairs,” she recalls.

Inspiring the next generation of women in tech 

Figures out this week, that reveal women still only occupy just 17% of tech jobs in the UK, with fewer than one in 10 of these women in leadership positions in the sector, really concern me.

Regardless of the cause, this to me seems a great shame. Technology is a hugely broad and diverse industry and we need an equally broad and diverse talent pool in which to further develop the technology of tomorrow.

Initiatives such as the 30% club — in which I play an active role — are spearheading campaigns to readdress the gender balance and further empower women into tech careers. Yet the very existence of these initiatives reveals that there is still work to do.

#GE2015: Ada’s List releases results of survey on policy priorities for women in technology


27th April 2015

London, UK

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

More than a thousand women are members of Ada’s List, an online community designed for – and run by – women who work in technology in the United Kingdom and globally.

In the run up to the UK’s 2015 General Elections, Ada’s List went out to its members with some important questions. What issues matter to women in tech? Who will they vote for in May? What do they think about the future of technology – and women – in Britain?

The results were surprising. For starters, more than half of Ada’s List members (56.1%) refused to align themselves with any of the UK’s major political parties. Perhaps that’s because they don’t feel their interests are being represented, despite 90% of them considering parties’ stances on so-called “women’s issues” (like equal pay) and 85% considering parties’ stances on tech-related issues (like investing in emergent technology) before casting their votes. Also, more than 62% of the women surveyed said they couldn’t identify which of Britain’s parties best represented the needs of women in technology, pointing to a missed opportunity to engage with this audience.

When it came to the government and technology, Ada’s List members were similarly pessimistic. Although 57.8% of respondents felt the UK’s political parties understood technology’s link to a strong economy, only 12% trusted the government to actually make the right decisions around improving technology. (On a related note, more than three-quarters didn’t trust the UK’s ability to reduce inequalities around technology access and adoption over the next 10 years.)

Although the majority of the women in this survey were all part of the same online group, their backgrounds differ. They range from 18 to 55+; in the past, they have voted Labour, LibDem, Conservative and even UKIP. They serve as directors, managers, entrepreneurs and freelancers, with salaries ranging from entry-level to £100,000 annually.

The full results of the survey are available here.

For more information about the 2015 Ada’s List survey, please contact Merici Vinton at [email protected]

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Ada’s List is an online community for women working in technology, designed to inspire and support women as they tackle issues as broad as dealing with trolls online, asking for salary increases, raising funding for their start-up or dealing with discrimination. Through the community some women have found jobs or hired new team members, while others have found mentors, clients and friends. Ada’s List was founded in October 2013 by Anjali Ramachandran, Merici Vinton, Nicki Sprinz and Rosa Birch.