Learning two facts about Britain’s tech industry inspired Anna Brailsford to launch entrepreneurial training business Code First Girls. The first was that the UK’s tech job market is projected to grow to six times its current value to be worth £30 billion by 2025. And the second was that only one in five people in the current tech workforce are women.
“I realised,” Brailsford explains, “that the existing model of tech education was broken. Girls and women were not being encouraged into tech careers throughout their educational and professional life. If we rely on higher education alone, there will be one qualified woman for every 115 roles in technology by 2025. Companies are facing a colossal skills gap and dearth of talent.”
