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The 2018 year of ladies come back in tech

Damnjan Jovanovic on December 09, 2018

There are zero obstacles for a female to do computer programming but yet we still struggle with Female/Male ratio in IT companies. A deficit of ...
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Caroline • • Edited

Really feeling proud to read this post and know about come back of ladies come back in tech and not in IT field females are showing their talents in all kind of possible professional career profile.

Caroline,
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Anna Simoroshka •

Nice article! :)

I recently heard from one of twitter account I follow that people are still very shocked when they realize she doing programming. And she lives in Europe, which we can consider as very open when it comes to breaking gender-profession stereotypes.

Well, to be fare, this usually comes from internet interactions or from immigrants such as myself. From European people I only get a neutral "oh, cool!". So, not so bad here! :)

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Damnjan Jovanovic •

Hi, thanks for the positive feedback :)
It is true that your twit inspired me to write this post, I'm glad you come across it :D

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Phil Ashby • • Edited

Fast Company magazine had a good article on this a while back, part promotion for a documentary (of course) but with good references too: fastcompany.com/3037269/the-fascin...

and of course the fabulous Dame Stephanie Shirley: ted.com/talks/dame_stephanie_shirl...

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Damnjan Jovanovic •

Hi Phil, thanks for sharing this material. I like Fastcompany article very much.