SIM Ep 813 Chops 240: Teching CTRL? Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon leads the way

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🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Tech whizz, creator of award-winning social enterprise Stemettes, host of the Women Tech Charge podcast, and a familiar face off the telly thanks numerous Countdown appearances, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon is a firm advocate for women and girls owning it in tech spaces. Her excellent new book, She’s In CTRL: How Women Can Take Back Tech, aims to help more women and girls do just that. She got on the Zoom to talk to our Mick about why women are under-represented in tech, why it matters, and how we can all help change that – starting with ourselves. They chat gatekeepers and getting round them, herstories lost to history, why it’s SO important that women and girls claim their rightful spaces in the world of technology, and how there’s no such thing as being too full to learn. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, all right. Welcome to this week's Sunday Chops. Just another eight and a half weeks of January to go. Exciting.
0:21.5	It's Mickey by the way and for this Chops I thought I was going to be miles out of my comfort zone
0:26.7	because I'm chatting technology with Dr. Anne-Marie Imaffedent, TechWiz, creator of the award-winning
0:33.3	social enterprise Stamets, host of the Women Tech Charge podcast, The Million Face of the Telly
0:39.2	thanks to 61 episodes of Countdown, an author of new book, She's in Control. Turns out not only
0:46.8	is Anne-Marie a glorious, uplifting, encouraging interview, but I also have more of a handle on
0:52.9	technology than I realised. We all do, not least because we're surrounded by it every day in
0:58.9	pretty much every aspect of our lives. You're listening to this on some sort of a device right now.
1:04.7	Get you, I know. So yeah, Anne-Marie was having none of my, but my brain is already full, nonsense,
1:13.2	and more power to her, and indeed to me. She's in control is part exploration of why women are
1:20.0	underrepresented in tech and part handbook on how to change that, starting with our individual
1:25.7	relationships with the tech that is all around us. Anne-Marie and I chat about why there are so many
1:31.2	gatekeepers in tech finding ways around them, why it's so so important women and girls claim
1:37.6	their rightful spaces in the world of technology and how your microwave can help. Uh-huh, yeah.
1:43.7	A little peek behind the curtain listeners, I do not own a microwave or indeed an air fryer,
1:48.8	but Anne-Marie's point still stands. What am I walking on about at this bit,
1:52.8	keep listed and find out. Anne-Marie, hello. Hi, hey Mickey, how's it going? All right, thank you.
2:00.4	My mum is an Anne-Marie, it's quite unusual. Oh no, why really? Did she spell it correctly?
2:05.6	Oh, she doesn't have an e. She's Anne-Marie without the, um, the e in it.
2:12.1	Now then, your book, She's in control, is a really positive space. So I'm going to start by
2:21.1	getting the negative out of the way because right now, looking generally at the world of tech,
2:26.8	she isn't in control, only 26% of people working in tech in the UK are female and this is intentional,
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