The businesswomen do a lot of work speaking in schools in trying to address the issue, Togher added, “but it ends in the hall”. While its participation figures were impressive, there was a need to track women going on from the BTYSTE, she believed.
Lios won first prize at the recent She Loves Tech 2022 awards. The co-founders went to secondary school together and their company was born out of a Young Scientist project. It has two core products; Sound Relief tinnitus sound therapy and Sound Bounce hearing protection. Gillian Harford, chief executive of 30% Club Ireland, said some significant progress on diversity had been made in recent years but there was still a way to go – with a stereotypical bias in education of boys and girls from their early years. This was particularly evident “in the career guidance space”.