Episode Twenty One: Closing the Gap

How Data Can Add a Competitive Edge

To understand people, which is fundamentally our job when we're creating solutions, we have to understand data. And that applies for the pay gap as much as anything else.
Claire Barnett, Executive Director, UN Women UK
 

This special episode recorded at the Women in Data conference features a panel discussion hosted by Catherine Mayer, co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party. Our guests discuss their experiences and insight on gaps and barriers within organisations, and the results of a survey of data scientists on the gender pay gap and the role of data within their businesses.

Panelists include Richard Pugh, chief data scientist for Mango Solutions; Clare Gorman, vice president global operations for Aveva; Claire Barnett, executive director of UN Women UK; Caroline Pankhurst, founder of Be Braver and Belinda Djamson, data and analytics management lead at Accenture.  

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