We all know that there is a major gender gap when it comes to women
in technology.
Although women make
up majority of workplace and social media world, they only represent a tiny
percentage in technology world.
Www.themuse.com, presented an infographic of some stats of
women in technology and how they are making strides in the technology field and
why we have to make sure this trend keeps on going.
In Twitter and Facebook there is a value of 55% of women
users who are using it. And yet, the technology world is still a “Boys Area” in
many ways. Only 28% of software jobs is held by women and IT jobs is only has a
25% and of course there is only a 5% of tech start-ups owned by women.
But when we look at the modern world we can see women are
quite literally breaking through the glass ceiling that once stood in their way
and are standing alongside with their male peers to deliver amazing results
within tech world. They are not the kind of women who expected to stay at home
and look after the kids while the men went out to earn a living. It’s perfectly
normal to see females enjoying good careers with many entering the technology
sector.
The ENIAC programmers, the first computer scientists to work
in the project were all women.
And the creator of the spanning-tree protocol, Radia Perlman, is
known as the “mother of internet”. And yet, tech today is overwhelmingly
considered a man’s domain. I will give you one perfect example of how women
inspired the tech world.
Caterina Fake is an American entrepreneur, designer, and
businesswoman. Becoming a business pioneer in tech was an accidental one.
She was an
undergraduate studying art and English and upon graduating she moved to San
Francisco and combined her artistic training with her interest in computers,
becoming a pioneer of graphic design and blogging in the late 1990s.
She self-taught HTML, published a blog, and eventually built
her own website. She went on an created photo-sharing company Flickr, the
decision-making website Hunch, and Findery.
And of course, Mary Lou Jepsen,
Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, Esther Dyson and Shafi Goldwasser also played major
roles in technology industry. They teach us to be relentless in seeing our
dreams to fulfill and to find innovative ways to use tech to make one’s ideas
for a better world. As the COO of Facebook and Forbes’ most powerful woman in
technology, Sheryl Sandberg has a personal fortune of $1.4 billion. See how much
influence they have made to technology world.
As conclusion, it’s clear that
women have greatly improved many aspects of technology to date and look set to
do so for many years to come.
Article By: Dhanika Bulathsinhala
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