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Why Women Are Leaving Tech, and Why This Is the Worst Time to Do It
Hey
Before anything else, I want to say thank you.
Over the last few weeks, so many of you have bought a copy of The Bold Move and have already started reading it. Seeing your messages, screenshots, and reflections come through has honestly been one of the most grounding parts of this whole launch.
What has really stood out to me is how much of this resonates: confidence, transferable skills, backing yourself, and letting go of outdated career rules.
Please keep sharing your takeaways with me. I read every message, and it reminds me exactly why I wrote this book.
A special shout-out to those who purchased the book last Thursday as well, and some (again)! We’ve officially hit #1 in the Job Hunting and Career Guides category on Amazon, alongside some people I truly admire in the space.
It was a real “pinch-me” moment!
I’m excited to connect with some of you one-on-one in the New Year.
Now, onto this week’s episode…because it couldn’t be more timely.
Why Women Are Leaving Tech, and Why This Is the Worst Time to Do It
This week on the podcast, I sat down with Emma Jones, founder of Project F and The T-EDI Standards®, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Standards for the Technology Sector.
She is one of the most thoughtful voices I’ve spoken to on women, systems, and the future of work.
And early in the conversation, she said something that stopped me in my tracks:
“It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s an exodus.”
Women aren’t failing in tech.
They’re leaving because the systems weren’t designed for them to thrive.
And here’s the part we don’t talk about enough:
With AI reshaping work, this is the worst possible time for women to walk away from technology.
Not because tech is easy.
Not because it’s fair.
But because it’s where influence, power, and opportunity are being built next.
If women opt out now, we won’t just miss jobs, we’ll miss the chance to shape what comes next.
What we really get into in this conversation
Emma and I talk honestly about:
• Why “awareness” isn’t the problem anymore, and what accountability actually looks like
• Why women leave tech mid-career (and why it’s a systems issue, not confidence)
• How AI is both a risk and a reset
• Why seeing yourself as a set of skills, not a job title, matters more than ever
• What leaders and companies must do now if they want to keep great women
• And why community isn’t a “nice to have”, it’s career insurance
This isn’t a fear-based episode.
It’s a grounding one.
The bigger picture
I keep coming back to this line Emma shared, and one I have said many times in the past:
“You can’t be what you can’t see.”
If women disappear from tech now, future systems will be built without our perspective, our ethics, our empathy, and our lived experience.
That’s why I wrote The Bold Move.
That’s why I’m having these conversations.
And that’s why I believe now is not the time to retreat, it’s the time to reposition.
If this episode resonates with you, I’d love to hear what landed. And if you’ve started reading The Bold Move, keep sending through your reflections, it means more than you know.
With Confidence,
Georgie 💜
