But there’s plenty more reasons why tech needs more women. TechCity UK – a think-tank for the UK government recently announced that by 2020 the UK will need a further 1 million tech workers. Even if every person entering the UK over the next few years went straight into tech we’d still fall short, and in the dawn of Brexit relying on an incoming workforce is a pretty risky manoeuvre. It makes far more sense to start to utilise the workforce that we already have to its full potential.