Growing up, I always thought technology was a
field for only men to pursue. In middle school and high school, I only learned
about scientists like Einstein, Darwin and Newton, which led me to assume that
only men worked in technology. It was only until the movie "Hidden
Figures" came out this year did I learn that women played a significant,
if not larger role in technology than men did. The article I attached talks
about the blog that was started by Lea Coligado called the "Women of
Silicon Valley." Lea got this idea from the Instagram account "The
Humans of New York," which documents pictures of people in New York City
with captions about what they are doing or what they would like to say to the
world. Lea interviews women that work for start up companies in the San
Fransisco Bay Area, or large companies like Google and Facebook. One of her
stories features a young woman named Adriana Gascoigne. Adriana has worked for
over twenty start-ups and started a non-profit organization called "Girls
in Tech." Girls in Tech strives to promote empowerment, engagement, and
education for women in the technology industry. Adriana began it in San
Fransisco, however Girls in Tech now has chapters in Australia and the Middle
East. Girls in Tech have events such as hackathons where they sit in rooms
together and try to hack servers and do not have to feel pressured by a male
figure to finish their job on time. It gives women time to do the thing they
love surrounded by other women. Women of Silicon Valley features many other impressive
stories like Adriana's. The article broke the image that I had that only men
could succeed in technology and was very empowering.
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