Brianna White

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The number of women in technology and leadership roles has increased. Still, there has been little growth in the representation of women in terms of percentage in jobs like programmers and executives in the world’s top digital companies. These findings emerged from a recent Huawei seminar, ‘Addressing the gender gap’.
“One of the key things we have learned is that radical transformation is possible and that it is possible for all of us,” said Alaina Percival, CEO and co-founder of Women Who Code, a non-governmental organization based in the United States.
Additionally, Percival said that companies, industries and governments should continue to build for inclusion and think about how we can design inclusion by increasing opportunities for women across the industry. “Inclusion is not by desire. It’s by design,” Percival said.
Afke Schaart, senior vice-president of public affairs at Huawei, said that 75 per cent of the jobs are expected to be related to STEMs by 2050, citing UNESCO figures. Schaart noted that her company has rolled out several initiatives globally to groom young talents in the digital sector, such as Seeds for the Future, ICT Academy and the Global ICT Contest. “We see ourselves playing an important role in enabling and inspiring more women to join the technology sector, given that we are an important partner for going digital in this region,” Schaart said. “The good thing is that we have been committed to the initiatives, some of which have been there for a long time. We started the Seeds for the Future program in 2008, and it is still growing,” Schaart said.
Continue reading: https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/women-in-tech-up-but-not-enough/
 

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