The Future of Women in Tech: How to Level The Playing Field?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Technology, News, Business News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The buzz 1: "Women earn about half of science and engineering degrees, but they make up less than 20 percent of people employed in those fields." (mckinsey.com) The buzz 2: "Women are missing out on entrepreneurial success, making up just 17% of IT specialists in the UK. Worse still, a new survey shows that the number of women in the tech sector has barely moved over the past 10 years despite an industry-wide push. When tech has never had it so good, where are the women?" (theguardian.com) The buzz 3: "Women who have decided to pursue a career in computer science…credited early exposure to programming as the greatest factor in their decision to become engineers. Conversely, a lack of early exposure to computer science was the primary deterrent for women who leave—or never join—the field." (themuse.com) We ask SAP's Maria Villar, NTT DATA's Theresa Kushner, Treeverse's Einat Orr and VMware's Radhika Rangarajan to predict The Future of Women in Tech: How to Level The Playing Field?

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1:10.5	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
1:23.1	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
1:37.1	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
1:41.1	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
1:42.5	Bonnie D. Graham.
1:46.7	Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. That means I have four guests today. We are so excited. This is the first time technology revolution. The future of now is live streaming to LinkedIn.
1:52.2	And I have to say a big shout out and a thank you to the powers that be at LinkedIn that gave me
1:56.7	the green light to join their beta live streaming program. So here we are. We're also
2:01.4	live streaming to my Facebook page, Bonnie D. Graham. So what are we talking about today? I have
2:06.4	three buzz quotes and then I'll have my experts on the panel, my futurists introduce themselves.
2:11.8	So I have a quote from McKinsey.com. Everybody listen up is important. I don't care where you
2:16.5	work, who you are, your age, your gender, where you are in the world,
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