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At healthcare technology company, Sláinte Healthcare, 57 per cent of the senior management team are female, as is a third of the technology department. HR director Oonagh O'Driscoll said that the company was relatively young and was benefiting from the fact that it is not battling an embedded culture.

Their ability to attract women is self-perpetuating, too, "It is very young and innovative company so there are no traditions that need to be shaken in terms of numbers of imbalance".

"The more women there are in a technology department, the more included women are to join that department because there is already a better balance and it is an environment that is comfortable.

That is a little bit of a catch 22 for companies, but when you are already on that trajectory, it certainly helps you.

"The fact that we have such a high participation rate at senior management level means that it is a cultural environment where people are going to be rewarded if they are successful and the right person for the job, whether male or female. " she said.

As well as generous maternity leave, the company has implemented flexible working arrangements, "People work hard, but they work when it suits them as well.

"We do have a pretty generous maternity scheme and there is a lot of flexibility around how you work" said O'Driscoll.

"You may be able to work from home on occasion. It is about just having a work-life balance and it is not really about clock watching, it is about outputs"

She believes that work is needed in the education sector to encourage more women into technology, with greater access to higher-level maths and science subjects and even recognition that people with language skills may have an aptitude for coding.

"The private sector has really taken the lead in some of the initiatives, like the coding club for girls" she said.

"I really think that it does go back to some of the education choices. [We need to be] encouraging more access to that and encouraging parents to have access to it, because we are all shaped by what views our parents have at a young age. There is more that we can do in that space".