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squeeze all bodies. how much do we need per day? ponds cream for help. find the offices, get smaller on dw science, and i'll take 10 of the do you want a job with a real future and a well paid font? if that then take might just be the field for you, have time to so on the lookout for smart recruits to fill in lucrative roles. but the house of looking for women tech is still a male dominated field. after all, we're going to show you 3 women, which has that status quote and one coming up today. but 1st, let's say you want to get your foot in the door. what skills might you need? right now? it's all about web software and data base development. as well as operations, so that running a programming language is a good place to stop parson, javascript,

or java, for example, what it might sound daunting, almost 30 percent of develop as a self taught by watching tutorials on youtube. for example, a degree in computer science content, but it's no longer a must internationally only $1.00 and $5.00 companies insist upon the college degree. so what's stopping women from guessing involved? entrepreneur and consultants a deep, i'm in your has a few ideas the going to the not. the 1st reason is the lack of role models. the, i mean, we have very male dominated teams in the tech industry. and as a woman, it's not very attractive to see. i might be the only room in there. so i, i think it's called that's $5.00 to $1.00 is the, the 2nd reason is that we are only just starting to get young women and girls interested in tech. and this prejudice starts in school where boys are often presumed to be better in the technical field. and girls aren't supported by the 3rd

reason is that we own the employer, so i need to offer more flexible working conditions. if we solve this will attract more women to the sector by the guy. did you ever think the job isn't suitable for you just because there aren't enough fema role models in that position? this is a common theme in the tech industry. we're only 5 percent of all see oath of female . to this day, women on encourage to succeed in certain areas, especially at a young age. that was the case pop. i mean, actually order from argentina. her father didn't want her to be involved with computers as a child. it's not something for girls he would say. but she did it anyway, unless you are is where she always wanted to be working in tech for father and visit her as an accountant for the family business. but a, just a 9. pamela found some old computer magazines that our father kept and began to study them. a childress. yeah. you went ok, they are using to say,

how wonderful it is to create with these computers either. so what my child's mind understood in those assume but, and i would say i want to do this move up. i say you went so i always read the magazines and my dad noticed this, the sound of everything he said to me and said, daughter, these magazines are not for you by technology is a man's thing. and then bill and my dad was the one getting orders and everyone had to do it. he said human through this, i feel really sad because they had the stream for many years the most daniels, despite our father's refusal, her mother secretly enrolled her and university. so she could study computer science, the journey was not easy. as a few years later, the family business went bankrupt and her father left jo. music got to let me find me in the i took responsibility for my family, which was my mother and my sister's here in my 2 brothers who were studying and quite a while. and so i had to drop out of college in order to work a bit. i started working in the i t department of the energy company and who,

who he and here the whole force for 10 years coming to work there until she reconnected with andres, a former schoolmate, and also an i t professional with whom she entered a relationship and later married, pamela completed her studies together with andres. they started new be metrics, a company that provides e commerce solutions supported by artificial intelligence. today, 10 years later, the company has a presence in 1711 american countries, over 9000 customers, nearly 100 employees. mother single in the policy and the 50 percent of the management that will be metric for women to develop. and women make up just over the 45 percent throughout the company. the single percent of the move in the beginning. we pushed it a bit and it gave us an excellent results. vocal interview extend and then it became 2nd nature, the commune. that low he got. and if the once to level the playing field for everyone do that. but at the end, the trail lasers leave their market,

it is sort of becomes a natural cycle soon. but on the 8th of jack, i'm with the no secret and that the, the ginger gap in technology remains significant. but it is gradually narrowing. argentina leads and female participation with more than 40 percent of women in the tech workforce. say that that then the we are trying to work with role models. and let me know that i, if i ask you see you as an innovator in technology, and then you might say steve jobs or mark sucker burke, the jobs or media mux, who can bed seemed at the nimble on well then we always have male role models none of them are, but we don't have female role models that come to mind immediately. hang on east, and we must work on that and this. but i can be of them that we need to change this idea that technology is a forbidden world for women. nothing, not a human one, the credit, the, what was it like for you growing up? i hardly had any female role models. but today,

thanks for platforms like link and or thing. i can easily network with other women and tech. another way to promote women in the tech industry is my a social networks by women for women in india as a lead dot club is such a network for women only for co founder of any tasks. it is particularly important in the country. what conservative generals bills dominate, women just have a very different cardio boss. they have a very different uh, point of view. they have a different opinion. they have a very different, you know, i think maybe even though vision we need and all those clubs, we need women to support each other. we need the mental back each other up before the 2020 launch of lead club. there were hardly any professional networks for women in india. the release was a huge success. this way women can network online, get further training or take part in mentoring programs. today to bug you need us

has a team of 30 employees, many of whom are women. as someone who has cooled down to the digital platform does strongly believes that tech can play a big role for women's progress. but she, as it is still majorly a boys club, there seems to be a massive, massive gap killed in the market. like even if i have to go to all or the tech found those meet up, i will be unfortunately, one of the very few women in the room. we need to invest a lot more. in women in tex, rog, you need believes the app has become the medium to bring women together at a leave dot club event in delhi. hundreds of women who met online are meeting up to network professionally. i cannot this, i was looking to connected with a lot of like 9 different please. i think this app has been extremely beneficial in that sense. i have made an oral phone, does

a lot of investment banker as an oil saw indeed, or does i not people, you know, mean somebody walks of life. so it has the no confidence booster. definitely. so have, has been a great platforms who makes them professional networking. i've met some wonderful women and not about great professions, which i never knew existed. for many women delete club has become an important instrument for finding allies in their professional life. and that spiral effect. it's thoughtful, what $1500.00 women together to day, networking and support a one thing true equality in terms of pay is another. even in 2023 women and the tech sector, a still earning an average of 10 percent less than men. the agenda pick up is slowly shrinking, but why women get less money for the same work as men is beyond me? what's the track just about the tech industry is that many jobs can be done remotely. that office flexibility and independent is in contrast to many of the

sectors who's the owner of a small town, 2 hours from luckiest capital rica, not exactly a tech industry hub whose bar is mostly known for its agriculture. but the optical internet connection here is stable and fast, not the or ring 16 globally and download speed access costs about $17.00, your rows a month lever, colleena from laura has made a career in tech. she works as a data analyst and platform developer for a european car manufactured lever works from home, 40 hours a week with a monthly pay of around $2900.00 euro is almost double the national average. all she needs for her work is a laptop for her design work. she uses power b, i power auto, major power pages. and kind of the, the, the initial thought was just to have like exercise for my mind. it was

called at the time. so we have a lot of free time and yeah, so if nowadays like kids get taught coding so i can probably do it. leave a tell me know, learned how to code with re good ted girls and n g o that offers free classes. busy busy busy busy we started off as a community of women intact and focusing mostly on women and girls. in the past couple of years, we've grown into a community that is supporting inclusion in diverse of teen tech. it's about diversity. so every thing that we create the store, it's to be useful and just a good solution for everyone. it needs to be created by people who are, who have a diverse experiences we've uh, initially wanted to work as

a user interface designer. but then she got a job and a different field. as a specialist for data visualization, she saw the advice from the rica tech girls, the aspirin, manta, what do i do? and she gave me really good advice. she said, visualization that's, that's design, right? that's not just they cut numbers and coding whatever that's design. so you can actually combine if you like, of the mos poss also and the design poss. yeah. it's itself tracked it for the 1st time, extra way in my life for a positive working environment. chris, it's arriving atmosphere for employee and employer women and the tech industry important as a tech walked can benefit from diversity

a lot in the future. we're going to see there are many studies that show diversity and teams leads to better results. doctors and women have been under represented in technology for a long time. the thing that we see it in the development of a i, which is often programmed by man. so there's often a very male view of these technological advances. and if women participate more, the product will be much better in the vast majority of cases because of the different perspectives they bring to the accounts. this reasons to go for a job in tech, especially for women, the opportunities of great. and that's never too late to get stuff of. what are your experiences in the field? do you feel inspired to dive into the tech world? that is not what you think, and we'll see you next time. the eco africa. the relatively easy in uganda is under threat sand mining,

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