The Tech Industry Forgot That Women Exist | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon
About this episode
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon discusses the challenges women face in the tech industry and the importance of inclusive leadership.
Women in tech, AI bias, gender inequality, and the future of work Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon pulls no punches. Child prodigy, STEMettes founder, Countdown arithmetician, and government adviser on women in technology. She built STEMettes from £300 to £1.2 million. She watched the internet lose its mind over a Black woman doing maths on daytime TV. And she's spent 13 years trying to fix a tech industry that keeps building products that forget half the world exists. In this episode: why tolerating a brilliant jerk is a leadership failure. What leaders actually mean when they say they "can't find" female talent. Why crash test dummies based on women's bodies only arrived in 2025. And what a portfolio career looks like when you're genuinely living one. We also get into work, life, and legacy as a single equation - and why her definition of success has nothing to do with status. Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon - Head STEMette, DSIT Women in Tech Envoy, Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University, former Countdown arithmetician. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Meet Anne-Marie Imafidon 02:35 Life as a Multi-Hyphenate 05:07 Balancing Time and Legacy 10:48 The Child Prodigy Myth 16:53 Opportunity Not…
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