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For a long time, people believed that the technology industry was dominated by men but the latter has changed and women started to progress and encourage this stereotype. The role of women is not just welcome but increasingly influential in driving technological advance in the industries that are essential to today’s society. This blog is devoted to inspiring tales of women in the technology sector, the hardships they faced, and life’s useful lessons.
Surprisingly, history shows the women played a crucial role in the early history of computing. Lovelace was a mathematician who is sometimes described as the first computer programmer, while Hopper, one of the first computer programmers developed one of the first compilers. However, in the middle of the 20th century women left the IT field due to the social prejudices and expectations.
Moving to the 21st century and, to some extent, the narrative has started to swing back. Various institutions such as Organizations, Educational institutions and Governments have made endeavors to minimize the gap between the male and the female in development of technology. Increasingly, women are gaining degrees in computer sciences and engineering more than ever before. In addition, organizations such as Girls Who Code and Women Who Tech are encouraging young women to take up technology jobs.
Reshma Saujani
When Reshma Saujani initially founded Girls Who Code, the mission was to bring girls into the field of technology. She has taken so much efforts to ensure that through her non-profit organisation, millions of girls wanting to code have been equipped with both the knowledge and the confidence to undertake the challenge.
Susan Wojcicki
The head of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki is an ideal example of females heading major tech companies. Before helping AdSense to become one of Google’s most popular tools, Wojcicki was appointed the head of YouTube and turned it into the biggest video-sharing website.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Dr Fei-Fei Li is one of the most distinguished academics and AI researchers who has also contributed immensely to the computational discipline of computer vision and artificial intelligence. In order to advance distribution and inclusion in Artificial Intelligence, she co-founded a nonprofit known as AI4ALL.
Ruchi Sanghvi
Ruchi Sanghvi, the first ever female engineer to be hired by Facebook, also owns expertise in software engineering. She later helped to create Cove, a software company, and continues to be an outspoken champion of women in the technology industry.
However these success stories look good on paper, the struggle for women in IT is still a difficult one.
Gender Bias and Stereotypes
It emerges that many women still sit in organizations where they are regarded as having lesser technical skills than men.
Workplace Culture
Exclusion of the female gender from the workplace ends up preventing many women from excelling within the technology industries. There are complaints regarding equality in the following aspects: Payment, promo-tion/remuneration, and sexual harassment.
The Confidence Gap
Research also reveals that while men apply as soon as they find that they meet about 60 percent of the requirements, women wait until they meet all the requirements to apply.
Balancing Work and Family
Cultural expectations within cultures of women make it difficult for women to balance some of the increasingly complex technologies roles with childcare and family care.
Mentorship is one of the best approaches that can be embraced to encourage women in technology. In that way, they can invite successful leaders and practitioners, leaning on whom, students can get advice, inspiration, and contacts.
If girls are exposed to coding and STEM subjects it a young age they may be inclined towards technology. Schools and parents need to assure these fields are not exclusive to boys.
This means that organizations are required to set up policies to support diversity and inclusion. The stereotypes and prejudices on women can be removed by adopting flexible working hours, women-to-men equal remuneration; there should be no tolerance for sexual harassment at the workplace.
The role models that women in tech provide help create inspiration to follow the same path to other people. It also subverts the narrative and to show that anyone can succeed in tech.
For a company, diversity is not only the right thing, it’s also the wise thing; the smart way to go. Increased business performance can be linked with diversity as the studies indicate that diverse teams are more innovative and financially successful. Whenever women are involved in the implementation of technology, technological products and services are more likely to be constructed in a way that is friendly to users. For instance, voice recognition software was trained by males for most of its developmental stage, which is why its algorithms could not recognize female voices for some time. This positive external is a clear pointer to the fact that multifaceted approach to technology development is vital.
Promoting and advancing more women in the technology sectors is a true story of grit, hard work, and cooperation and support from people across the world and the companies. Though, there is still lot to be achieved. That is why important organizational and systematic processes need to be worked out and changes to be made, so that future generations of women can enter the technology industry successfully. It is the narratives from women in tech, which entice us to aim high and push through the barriers. Today we congratulate them while promising to work for a better tech future that is just, inclusive and diverse. It is time we transform the future of technology to become more impartial and allow women to pretty much excel like men do.
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