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This article focuses on workforce development and diversity initiatives within the quantum computing sector, specifically addressing the gender gap in roles requiring quantum error correction skills. By highlighting Riverlane's workshop that transitions attendees into industry positions, it underscores the critical need to broaden the talent pool for the projected surge in quantum jobs by 2035.

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Riverlane workshop boosts women in quantum error correction

Quantum ZeitgeistOctober 20, 20265 min read

The UK Quantum Skills Taskforce projects 250,000 new quantum roles globally by 2030 and 840,000 by 2035, yet research indicates only one in 54 applicants for quantum roles is a woman, with 79% of companies having no senior female figure. Riverlane’s Bertha Swirles QEC Workshop aims to address this gap by giving women undergraduates, recent graduates and post graduates the chance to learn quantum error correction fundamentals.

With just one in 54 applicants for quantum roles identifying as women, the emerging field faces a significant gender disparity as it rapidly expands. The UK Quantum Skills Taskforce projects 840,000 new quantum computing roles globally by 2035, intensifying the need to broaden the talent pool. Riverlane’s Bertha Swirles QEC Workshop offers one pathway to inclusion, recently leading Tamsin Sandhu from attendee to Associate Research Engineer at the company; “The hackathon is probably the thing that stayed with me most,” she says, “It was the first taste of what you would actually work…

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