Normalising: better representing our users in the Ministry of Justice

My keynote at DWP Digital's Women in Digital event in Leeds
Tuesday 20th June 2017

Transcript

1. Women in Digital Representing our users
2. @kyliehavelock @Justice_Digital
3. So, what inspired us?
8. Vision Make our digital and technology teams more representative of the general population and the people we build services for
9. How bad is it?
10. of those employed in Britain’s digital industries are women 27%
11. 12% of computing degree students are women
12. 8% of computing A-level students are women
13. What can we do about it?
14. Be passionate 1
16. Get (senior) support 2
17. Use data 3
18. Set goals (not targets) 3 4
19. 5 Experiment
21. I have never been the only person of my gender in a meeting I have never felt unsafe because of my gender True or False? If I have children and a successful career, not many people will ask me how I balance my professional and private lives Take the quiz @kyliehavelock
22. Reduce unconscious bias 7
23. 7 Be gender inclusive 8 @kitation
25. 7 Understand intersectionality 9
26. LGBTQ* Black and Minority Ethnic Parents & Carers Accessibility & Disability Mental health Wellbeing Social inclusion Age Religion Neurodiversity Geographical inclusion Gender
27. LGBTQ*
30. Go to them 10
31. 40% of coding bootcamp graduates are women
33. 60% of working mums don’t have access to flexible work
35. What have we achieved?
36. Proportion of our digital and technology team 25% who are women
37. 31% 25% Proportion of our digital and technology team who are women
38. Proportion of our senior management 25% who are women
39. 38% 25% who are women Proportion of our senior management
40. How many of our junior developers 1 are women
41. 1 5 How many of our junior developers are women
42. N U R T U R I N G C L E V E R M I N D S