{"id":1308,"date":"2015-06-10T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2015-06-10T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:40:34","slug":"women-in-digital-media-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/women-in-digital-media-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in digital media in decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/proportion-of-women-in-the-digital-and-creative-industries-falling\">report <\/a>by the\u00a0<em>UK Commission for Employment and Skills<\/em> shows that the proportion of women working in the digital sector has fallen from 33% (in 2002) to 26% (in 2014). Both figures are significantly below the average for all sectors (47%). The report points out that this decline comes at a time of rising demand for skills in this area. It is compounded by the decline in the number of women doing Computer Science at university.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long standing problem (the proportion of women doing Computer Science at university in the UK has been in decline since the mid-1980&#8217;s) and many initiatives have been tried, but the trend seems to be downwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by the\u00a0UK Commission for Employment and Skills shows that the proportion of women working in the digital sector has fallen from 33% (in 2002) to 26% (in 2014). Both figures are significantly below the average for all sectors (47%). The report points out that this decline comes at a time of rising demand for skills in this area. It is compounded by the decline in the number of women doing Computer Science at university. It&#8217;s a long&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts","category-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}