Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 29 March 2017.
I agree that the city deal may well provide this big digital leap forward, but it’s worth remembering as well that Swansea is where Trudy Norris-Grey made her leap forward from—you obviously know, Minister, that she’s the managing director of central and eastern Europe public sector at Microsoft and chair of Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. She claims that there are ‘fabulous opportunities’, to use her words, for women to take up careers in IT, but they don’t know about them. So, I’m wondering how Welsh Government can help Welsh businesses themselves—it’s not a question of skills so much as the businesses themselves—to better promote IT careers to women.