Opinion: Big Tech needs to give women a stake in creating the future
The Big Tech industry has consistently failed to attract more women into technical roles. It is time for a change in approach.
Lara Williams
Senior reporter
Lara Williams is a senior reporter at Investment Monitor specialising in FDI in the tech and bio-pharma sectors. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times’s fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK’s Computing magazine and has spent much of the past decade living in Silicon Valley.
Articles by Lara Williams
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