Why we need more women in science and tech

Why we need more womenin science and tech

Did you know that the first programmer was actually a woman?

And yet, today…

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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference

The conditioning starts very young

Girlswhocode

And the numbers are dropping!

But even when they get there, they face an hostile environment

41% of women in tech leave theindustry, compared with 17% of men

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Women in tech careers yearn for female role models and fl exibility in the workplace.

STUDY:

Women in tech careers yearn for female role models and fl exibility in the workplace.

STUDY:

Women in tech careers yearn for female role models and fl exibility in the workplace.

Why is this a serious issue?

Because of the loss of tremendous opportunities

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But also because technology is shaping the future

And the lack of female gaze in science can be lethal

Even the smallest signs matter

Feminist Principles of the InternetAn Evolving Document

Developed at theGender, Sexuality, and Internet Meeting

organized by theAssociation for Progressive Communications

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

In April 2014, the Association for Progressive Communications, APC, organized a Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality, and the Internet in

Malaysia, with 50 participants from six continents comprising gender & women’s rights activists, LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and

intersex) movements, internet and technology rights organizations, and human rights advocates. The goal of the meeting was to bridge

the gap between feminist movements and internet rights movements and look at intersections and strategic opportunities to work together

as allies and partners.

The Global Meeting used a collaborative process to ask the question: “As feminists, what kind of internet do we want

and what will it take for us to achieve it?”

Participants discussed and debated intersections of gender, sexuality, and the internet – not only as a tool – but as a new public space and, in thinking through these issues, developed a set of 15 feminist principles

of the internet. These are designed to be an evolving document that informs our work on gender and technology, as well as influences our

policy-making discussions when it comes to internet governance.

We invite you to join the discussion and debate on our evolving set of principles by getting in touch on http://erotics.apc.org

What can we do about it?

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Transparency is the first step to change the situation

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Challenge your own bias

● Divert the conversation and revisit privately

● Appeal to participant values

● Share why it matters to you

● Ask the speaker to see from another view

Ways bystanders take action

Point it out

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We need to teach girls to code

We need more female engineers

We need new toys

We need new role models

Pia Mancini: an example of a woman changing the world through technology

We need to learn from the Middle East…

• Where 30-70% of the enrollees in computer science programs were women.

• And 35% of tech entrepreneurs are women, a surprising statistic, considering the global norm of 10%.

We need to find mentors

We need women to take back thetech

We need new spaces

We need more women in techevents

We need to promote the women in tech around us

As a speaker…

If you attend a conference• Leverage social

media!• Point out gender

imbalances when you see them

• #allmalepanels

As a conference organizer

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