Challenges of a Girl Coder

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Detour

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From language to language

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Beating imposter syndrome by Tara Nielsen

A story about mentorship by Liana Popescu

Software, Security and Chess by Yosra Alaa

-- Break --

9,210km and plenty of code by Abril Alvarez

Q&A

Program

THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A (GIRL) CODER

G I R L C O D E M E E T U P

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In running a successful, international company we want to include everyone – and encourage a friendly, supportive atmosphere, because without the people, there is no Booking.com.

TARA NIELSEN,APP DESIGNER

A B O U T M E

“You’re a fraud.”W H A T I S I M P O S T O R S Y N D R O M E ?

“It’s more likely to affect high-achieving females than any other group”

IT’S AN EPIDEMIC AMONG WOMEN

WHERE DOES ‘IMPOSTORISM’ COME FROM?

UNREALISTIC STANDARDS?

HIGH EXPECTATIONS?

“THE SMART ONE”? BEING A MINORITY?

CREATIVE JOBS = CRITIQUE,COMPARISON

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WOMEN IN TECH?A P P L E K E Y N O T E 2 0 1 5

“You’re not a real designer, coder,

speaker.”

What does it look like?

SIGNS OF IMPOSTOR SYNDROME

W H A T D O E S I T L O O K L I K E ? “WORKAHOLISM” COMPARISON

DISCOUNTING SUCCESS PERFECTIONISM

SIDE-STEPPING COMPLIMENTS PROCRASTINATION

MILEY, WHAT’S GOOD?!

We’re all learningTIP 1

Talk about itTIP 2

You belongTIP 3

Remember your strengths

TIP 4

Use dataTIP 5

Take actionTIP 6

Thanks.

Liana Popescu

Chinese

Oracle bones to predict future

1200 BCE

Will it be a boy or a girl ?

Prognostication: The king read the cracks and said: “if it be a ding-day that she gave birth, there will be prolonged luck”.

Verification (after): On jiayin, after 31 days, she gave birth; it was not good...

...it was a girl”

...sometime right before my birth

“God, I hope they’re not boys”

Concepts

femalehistory

judgement customs

culture

perception

image

traditions

bias

WOMAN

prejudice

Working in technology

● “Learn programming in one day !”

● “Build your own apps in two weeks !”

● “You can do it ! It’s so easy !”

Is not that easy ! But do it anyways !

The beginning - high school

● Doubt

● Blush

● Decisions

Learning a skill

Lessons

Self-doubt, humbleness and thinking before you speak are all qualities.

Get advice from people you trust and never listen from advice from the others.

University

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 ...

Learn

Understand

Lessons

Embrace being you.

Listen to yourself: likes, dislikes, motivations. The world will not be changed if we always do what’s expected of our gender, profession, age, culture.

Discover and create who you are.

Developing applications for mobile devices

● iPhone training, 10 other people

● I didn’t touch an iPhone before

● Had no idea what a Mac is

● No idea what AppStore is

Outsider

Fear of failure

Lessons

You will constantly run into moments where it seems like you have no idea what’s going on.

Take it step by step.

...you don’t look like it !Oh you’re a developer

Don’t be discouraged ! Change the world, little by little.

Booking.com

To blush or not to blush

“Hey, what do you think ?”

Lesson

EMPOWER OTHER WOMEN AND MEN that are not in a cultural position of being able to speak up, work in a field or learn a skill.

Mentorship

● Notice

● Structure

● Attention

● Communication

● Listening

● What makes people happy

● Care

Thank you.

Yosra Alaa

Why am I talking to you today?

I did it at the age of 7

You are probably doing it too

So why fear now?

Joining Booking.com

Lots of girls in Booking, you would think!

Very few in development, even less in Security.

Summary

9,210km and plenty of code.Working abroad and a couple of things I learned in the road.

Abril Alvarez

México City (0 km)

1. Break Circles

○ Be independent

○ Let’s break wrong patterns

○ Raise your hand

○ Get conscious of what bothers you ★

○ Don’t get discouraged by not immediate change

Saltillo (844 km)

2.Find your people

○ Make sure to surround yourself with people that inspire you.

○ Accept the differences BECAUSE they will enrich your life

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3. Give second chances

○ School is not the only place to learn

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○ Discover your way of learning

○ Coding is learned by doing and it’s awesome!

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Take your passionAnd make it happen…

Irene Cara - Flashdance

4. Don’t think you are not enough to apply

○ I was really afraid of sending my portfolio

○ I didn’t think they would hire me since I didn’t meet the qualifications

○ Sometimes you are a click away from your dream job

New York (844 km)

I worked for some brands like:

★ Michael Bloomberg★ Disney

5. Learn the language

○ Anywhere you go try to learn the language. You will be surprise understanding new structures ofthinking.

○ Keep your core and be proud of it.

○ Learn costums, this will open your mind and will integrate you.

6. Raise your hand and learn to say NO○ No, won’t mean you can’t do it.

○ Be careful of burning out.

○ But also… Raise your hand if you feel you deserve the project, something is not going right or you think your work should be recognized.

So, are you a nanny?

○ It’s not a joke.

○ Let’s call the things by their name

○ Help others in need

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Amsterdam (9,210 km)

7. Start again

○ You are not representing the 100%

○ Let creativity flow

○ Focus in the core

○ Have fun!

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Gracias!

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