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The importance of women in the IT workforce
Despite historical and important cooperation for computer science, women still struggle to achieve equality and parity in the IT workforce.
If you didn´t miss the college basic computer lessons, you know that the first person who published an algorithm was a woman [1]. Ada Lovelace (pic below) was an English mathematician considered the author of the first computer program.
Unfortunately, after more than one century from this incredible Ada´s cooperation in computer history, women are still struggling to achieve equality and parity in the IT workforce — they are “impacted by social and structural factors”[2].
Despite efforts to encourage women to enter the IT workforce, we are still far from gender equality in the sector. The Women in Tech Index [3] by Honeypot shows that for all 41 countries surveyed, the female IT workforce is less than 31% (reaching less than 10% in some countries), and in some countries, the wage gap reaches more than 40%.
Gender equality in the IT workplace is a global problem beyond just a historical debt with…
