At the start of 2025, WeAreTechWomen and Oliver Wyman set out to explore a critical challenge: why women in UK tech aren’t progressing — or staying — at the pace they should.
What they uncovered was stark: between 40,000 and 60,000 women leave the UK’s tech sector every year, costing the economy an estimated £2 to £3.5 billion annually. This isn’t a pipeline problem — it’s a system failure.