Brianna White

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Leadership is not about positions of authority or administration. It is more about enabling yourself and others to collaborate to achieve a common objective that materializes a vision.
Despite being a leader in the workplace, the tech sector is lagging in terms of gender equality, with women still being underrepresented and paid less than their male colleagues. With millions of women abandoning the workforce since the start of 2020 due to layoffs or taking on additional obligations like housekeeping and caregiving, the Covid-19 pandemic has further slowed women’s advancement. Many women thought about downsizing their jobs or quitting the workforce as the status of women in tech become more ambiguous.
How can we, as women in technology, grow the leadership capacities required to create a diverse and inclusive tech sector in the future?
Focusing on these five areas of leadership can help women in IT advance their careers and close the gender gap in the industry:
1. Expert brand development: This focuses on professional branding and how our knowledge, abilities, and experiences are viewed by our industry peers and colleagues. As women in technology, there are opportunities for growing our professional branding like analyzing your professional image to assess the health of your brand, identifying areas for growth by contrasting the audit results with your perception of yourself and drafting a plan of action to put those changes into practice.
Continue reading: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/leadership-and-career-growth-strategies-for-women-in-tech-5-strategies-to-follow/
 

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