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21:00 19th February 2009
Productivity could be improved throughout the IT industry if more women were encouraged to seek IT careers, according to Memset.
Kate Craig-Wood, managing director of the company that provides server packages, said that IT businesses could benefit from the different skill-sets that women bring to the workplace.
She said that offices could work more effectively with a more balanced gender mix, but added that pay differences would probably have to be narrowed to appeal to a greater number of women.
Ms Craig-Wood said: "Companies with a good gender balance at the top level perform 34 per cent better in terms of internal equity."
The executive added that there is an average pay gap of nearly 25 per cent between male and female salaries in the IT industry, a figure ten per cent above the national average.
Improving pay conditions could play a major role in encouraging more women to seek computer training to help them prepare for an IT career.
The British Computer Society recently revealed new figures from e-skills UK showing that men working in the IT sector earn an average of £220 more a week than their female colleagues.
