Le Wagon Code Day 2019

Know-how’s gender downside is well-known.

Girls symbolize below 30% of technical roles within the tech trade. Based on McKinsey, probably the most gender-diverse corporations are 21% extra more likely to expertise above-average profitability. 

It’s crucial to deal with the gender variety downside in tech as know-how strikes so quick. Girls must be on the spearhead of innovation, alongside the lads; in any other case, prevailing fashions won’t change. So, to take action, we have to incentivise women and girls to enter and lead in tech. Le Wagon, the #1 ranked coding college worldwide, are main the best way as educators firstly of the pipeline of tech expertise. 

As a part of their Girls in Tech initiative, Le Wagon is working with corporations reminiscent of us to host free coding workshops to empower ladies by giving them the information and abilities they should thrive in tech. 

In direction of the tip of 2019, Le Wagon hosted a coding workshop at Seedrs HQ for our feminine workers, instructing the fundamentals of coding and making a touchdown web page from scratch utilizing HTML and CSS. 

Because of Le Wagon, we learnt HTML/CSS core notions, Bootstrap and its responsive grid system, in addition to numerous graphical ideas and instruments! It was a very enjoyable afternoon and round 30 ladies attended, with extra dialling-in internationally. 

We’re proud to accomplice with Le Wagon for this initiative to try for extra variety within the tech subject. 

As a fintech enterprise that’s democratising the funding panorama, variety and inclusion (D&I) sit on the coronary heart of what we do, and offering alternatives for everybody is a key driver of our success. 

Final 12 months, it was a precedence to make energetic adjustments to extend D&I inside our inside and exterior communities; from internet hosting our first Feminine Founder Workplace Hours occasion to signing the HM Treasury’s Girls in Finance Constitution. 

A key instigator of this step-change was forming an organization D&I group, to agree on initiatives, educate the broader firm, talk updates and assist an general tradition of belief and participation for our workers. 

One of many key initiatives was taking a look at our hiring course of to assist enhance the range inside groups reminiscent of tech. Among the methods included coaching hiring managers about unconscious bias throughout recruitment, simplifying the applying course of by specializing in competency over expertise, and specializing in the language we utilized in job commercials to make sure it was as inclusive as doable. 

That is solely the beginning of the journey, however we’re growing our D&I initiatives as we be taught alongside the best way. Thanks Le Wagon for uplifting and educating our workers, in addition to your work offering alternatives for everybody.

Right here’s to extra collaborations in 2020! 

Ellie Collins

Content material Advertising and marketing Supervisor