The Future of Women in Tech: Time to Smash the Glass Ceiling?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Buzz 1: “There is such a thing as a glass ceiling…the invisible barrier which prevents women from advancement in their profession. Do we have an unacknowledged barrier that is an obstacle for women in Tech who are indeed skilled and experienced but can’t get a promotion?” [huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com] The Buzz 2: “The label 'woman in tech' seems redundant these days – how many women would refer to themselves as ‘a female engineer’ or ‘the company’s female CTO’? However, there still exists a disparity in the pay scales and ability to climb the career ladder between men and women working in the technology sector. [codemotion.com] The Buzz 3: In 2015, the National Center for Women & Information Technology found women hold only a quarter of computing jobs, even though they make up about half of the total workforce. Unfortunately, statistics like these remain unsurprising and slow to change. [datacenterdynamics.com] The Buzz 4: “Due to gender discrimination, men tend to advance in their career merely on the ‘potential’ they exhibit whereas actual ‘performance’ determines how far women in technology proceed in their respective careers.…At current advancement rates, it will take 100 years for women in technical and non-technical roles to reach parity with men at the C-level. [content.techgig.com/leadership] We’ll ask Lisa Dalesandro DiChristofer, Lori Rosano, Debbie Scott and Kylie Woods for their take on The Future of Women in Tech: Time to Smash the Glass Ceiling?

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0:00.0	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?
0:16.0	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:21.2	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:27.1	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.5	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.0	Thank you, Ryan Treasurer, the voice who did the introduction. I'm Bonnie
0:39.7	Dee in the house if I got an exciting topic for you. But here we are live streaming on LinkedIn,
0:44.4	Facebook, live broadcasting audio on Voice America Business Channel. My four esteemed panelists today,
0:50.2	just for the heck of it, wave hello to all of our live viewing audiences we have a whole bunch of
0:54.4	people watching us on LinkedIn and they want to cheer you on so we're talking today about a topic
0:59.1	that is near and dear to me because I didn't know it was an issue when it was supposed to be an
1:04.1	issue the future of women in tech is there a glass ceiling if there is heck yes we got to smash it we got to We got to bash it. We got to trash it. We got to get rid of it
1:13.9	But just a little quick background. I'm considered an early woman in tech and when I was learning tech
1:20.4	I didn't have any idea what it was about and my parents sent me a couple of brochures in the mail. This was pre-email, pre-cell phones, and I was looking
1:28.6	for a quick profession, and I chose to study for two years to get two degrees after my bachelor's
1:33.8	degree, Magna Cum Laude, in computer science and computer operations. I had no idea what I was getting
1:39.2	into. It tickled my brain. Every day was a wow, jump for joy. I'm creating something blank page,
1:46.7	tabula rasa, put the code in, solve the problem. I was in heaven. They hired me right out of
1:52.0	those, that school, and I was running a system two years later. I didn't know that women weren't
1:57.2	welcome in tech because back in those days, half of my class were females. What can
2:02.6	I tell you? So I learned later on that now there's a problem and let's get to the bottom of this.
2:06.9	So now let me do my normal The Buzz introduction. I have a couple of interesting quotes.
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