The businesswoman and peer Martha Lane Fox has criticised the lack of gender diversity in the Uk technological innovation market, declaring it has not progressed in 25 decades.
Girl Lane-Fox of Soho shot to prominence in the late 1990s as the co-founder of Lastminute.com, a journey reserving web site that became a single of the symbols of the UK’s 1990s online growth. However, she reported many of the similar problems she had experienced then are nonetheless commonplace in the tech industry.
“I under no circumstances imagined that now in 2022, some of the dynamics of the marketplace that I was having fun with creating my business in would however be so horrible,” she said, in a speech at an function held by WorkL, a business that will work with businesses to observe staff welfare.
Lane Fox, who described herself as a “dot-com dinosaur”, has served in the House of Lords
