The Tech Industry Forgot That Women Exist | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon

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