Women in tech have spoken of being shouted at during meetings being subject to sexist abuse at work.

Women earn 12% less per hour than men and are four times more likely to have part-time roles, according to BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT.

Meanwhile, black women make up only 0.6% of the workforce.

Sue Black OBE, 63, a professor of computer science and technology evangelist at Durham University, told Metro that when she set up London BCSWomen, a networking and support group for women in IT in 1998, the percentage of women working in tech was ‘about the same as it is now’ – just 22 %.

She said: ‘It’s depressing that the percentage hasn’t improved, I really thought by now that it would have done. ‘The attitude towards the issue has changed however. In 1998 it was seen as quite a niche

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