Business and IT do not have gender – competencies count

According to Capgemini experts, diversified teams have a positive impact on the corporate culture, teamwork, knowledge sharing, and greater respect for proposed new solutions, but it is important that stereotypes do not obscure reality. The strength of women is in unity, as well as the ability to support other women, as evidenced by, among others a multitude of technology-related mentoring programs for specialists and leaders. Among the best known are IT FOR SHE and Lean in STEM. In addition to nationwide programs, there are also local groups. For example, Geek Girls Carrots meetings or the initiative PLUGin: Polish Innovation Diaspora, the community Female friendly IT events in Poland.

Aleksandra Trela-Radlak, a programmer, author of a blog about IT, from the beginning of her career associated with new technologies, who is not afraid of either back-end or front-end, believes that there are still not enough women in IT and business. And because she likes to share her knowledge, she supports other girls in strengthening their technical skills, she collaborated with Geek Girls Carrots, she also conducted numerous IT workshops for women, as well as lectures and training.

"Already during my studies, I had the opportunity to learn programming, which I really liked. The most important thing was that I could quickly see the effect of my work. I realized that programming is what I want to do and as a programmer, I will never be bored at work, which turned out to be true, each day at work brings me new challenges, courage and perseverance are very important. I love teaching others, but the biggest challenge in conducting the workshop was to overcome the fear that participants might ask difficult questions. that it's worth breaking your limitations and not giving up, despite failures. Especially women should be inspired to develop because there are still not enough of us in the IT industry. My inspiration is Lady Ada Lovelace, actually the first programmer, author of publications on the mechanical computer and the first published algorithm, it is its diagram, created in the nineteenth century, is considered to be the first computer program,” Aleksandra Trela-Radlak said.

Research shows that about 50 percent. programmers are people who have changed industries and as many as 72 percent. IT specialists are more satisfied with their work than women working in other professions (55 percent). Although among women in IT there is still the so-called "Confidence gap" is a group that is growing in strength at a great pace. There has been a lot of talk about women in IT and for a long time - it is certainly not an industry that can be described as "typically male".

(WBJ)