The tech sector still has a long way to go when it comes to gender equality. While progress has been made over the years, women in tech face hurdles such as discrimination and outdated hiring processes. All of this works to drive women out of tech and uphold ingrained, sectoral biases.

Female founders come up against these same challenges time and time again, which robs the industry of innovative firms and stems the flow of progress. For a more diverse sector, more work needs to be done on initiatives to support the next generation of women in tech.

In this episode, Jane and Rory speak to Laura Hutton, co-founder and chief customer officer at Quantexa, to discuss women in tech and the role leaders can play in improving equality throughout the sector.

Read more:

• From this week women across the UK will effectively work for free - and in tech it’s even worse
• Five common barriers holding back women in tech
• UK deep tech companies have a serious diversity problem
• Surge in female computing degree applications shows the tide is slowly turning on tech sector gender diversity
• UK’s female AI founders receive six times less funding than male counterparts
• “Shoehorning” female tech workers into management roles could harm inclusivity
• Sexism in the UK tech sector is rife and shows no sign of abating
• Tech workers fear generative AI could "drive women out the workforce"
• Women in tech are being forced out of work by the ‘motherhood penalty’
• Tech sector gender gap could take “nearly 300 years” to close without intervention
• Male workers say sexism in the tech industry is “rare” - women would disagree
• Fixing STEM's gender bias with more classroom intervention