The Women Pivoting to Digital Taskforce

The Women Pivoting to Digital Taskforce brings employers, government, and third sector organisations together to tackle digital talent shortages in the UK by promoting mid-career female career changers as an untapped talent solution.  

The aim of the Taskforce is to help businesses fill talent gaps while also addressing the underrepresentation of women working in digital careers by providing them with vital skills to future proof the digital workforce. 

Hiring mid-career women from non-technical backgrounds not only addresses skills gaps but also promotes equity in the digital workforce.  

The Taskforce has three workstreams:  

1. Workstream 1, Employers: Equipping businesses with the tools to better attract and retain women from non-technical backgrounds into digital careers. The objective is to build the business case for action and support businesses to upskill and hire female career changers. 
2. Workstream 2, Providers: Providing practical tools to third sector organisations and local government to better attract/retrain women from non-technical backgrounds into digital careers. This will include building an understand of what is preventing women from career changing into tech and help de-mystify what it means to work in a digital role. 
3. Workstream 3, Influencing policy: Capitalise on the momentum around AI and digital skills by working with Government, regulators and academic experts to advocate for funding and using existing/develop new policy levers to greater support female career changers.    

To find out more information, email the Women Pivoting to Digital team.