Why is there a lack of women in tech? It’s a question that has been asked countless times, with numerous initiatives and thought works on how to increase gender representation.

Yet, the dial has still not moved much above 19% of women in the UK tech industry.

So why are there still too few women in the industry? What barriers are stopping them entering? And how do we overcome them?

Anais Urlichs, a Developer Advocate from Aqua Security, sits down with us to discuss female representation in tech, the barriers she’s faced, and what companies can do to create an inclusive culture. 

As part of her role, Anaïs contributes to Aqua’s cloud native open source projects. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs her own YouTube Channel centered around cloud native technologies. Before joining Aqua, Anais worked as SRE at Civo, a cloud native service provider, where she helped enhance the infrastructure for hundreds of tenant clusters. As CNCF ambassador of the year 2021, her passion lies in making tools and platforms more accessible to developers and community members.

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