Anonymous

London, UK

Management Consultant

One of the reasons IT might be unattractive to women is that so many IT projects fail to deliver real business change because they're operating in a vacuum. The job becomes a dream to someone who just likes fiddling with 'stuff' to see what it can be made to do, with little/no regard for how it impacts or supposedly improves the worker's day-to-day life.

For an industry that has largely been told its skills are a commodity for the last 5 years, it's difficult to see how anyone of either gender would be encouraged to enter. Media coverage has frequently focused upon work being sent away rather than the real value added by the skilled resources onshore. Short-term one might earn a lot of cash, but long-term it's easy to perceive that there's no sustainable future in it here in the UK.

Perhaps UK Plc needs to up the ante in selling its expertise in this space better...?