Ninjeri Pandit is the digital services lead at NHS UK. She explains how women are changing the IT sector in public servicesAs a society,we are only too familiar with the fact that women make up only a tiny percentage of the decision-making roles in the technology sector, and that graduates in sciences, or technology,engineering and maths are mostly men. Men are not only the coders, they are also the project managers, and the business developers,the designers and the C-suite.
However, in the NHS, and the picture is a different one with women making up the majority of the workforce. While an encouraging start,is the NHS doing enough to ensure that its digital and technology workforce is truly diverse and representative of the people that it serves? Unfortunately, women absorb not yet reached all echelons of senior management, or executive teams or IT departments. I hope to be share of the cohort that changes that.
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Source: theguardian.com