Gender diversity in UK tech industry ‘still terrible’, says Martha Lane Fox
by Jasper Jolly from Technology | The Guardian on (#669XM)
Lastminute.com co-founder, now a peer, says little progress has been made in recent decades
The businesswoman and peer Martha Lane Fox has criticised the lack of gender diversity in the UK technology industry, saying it has not progressed in 25 years.
Lady Lane-Fox of Soho shot to prominence in the late 1990s as the co-founder of Lastminute.com, a travel booking website that became one of the symbols of the UK's 1990s internet boom. However, she said many of the same issues she had experienced then are still prevalent in the tech industry.
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