WITsend About This Blog A place for women in IT - opinion and debate on how to bring more women into the technology sector. Latest Blog Posts Related Content Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes CIO interview: Laura Dawson, CIO, London School of Economics Download Current Issue GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Rachel McElroy, chief marketing officer for technology solutions and services provider Solutionize Global, explains changing how girls view the tech sector could contribute towards tackling the UK’s tech skills shortage. When figures evidence that the UK is, in fact, losing billions of pounds a year in recruitment and staffing – £1.5bn to be precise – simply because there is a lack of people to fill science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) vacancies, that underlines a nationwide problem.