WOMAN IN TECH: When I was a little girl all I could think of was the stars… but not the glitzy ones from Hollywood, the ones up there in the sky. I dreamt about going to space and became obsessed with the space program. To learn more about it I immerse myself into the realms of the internet to learn every single thing that I could and that’s when I found out about so many careers that combined my passions. I enrolled in a computer science class in high school and then head on to software engineering in college.
The side that I enjoy the most about my career is the problem solving aspect of it. I can feel the satisfaction of engaging in tasks or developing solutions that will turn things (programs or hardware) into something more effective and efficient.
There is also a great opportunity for having some impact in the real world. I get to be involved in the creation or improvement of products, apps or devices that cannot only make a
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It’s known that, in the recent years, men have outnumbered women in every STEM field. Sometimes your abilities get overlooked; there’s a stat that indicates that 64 percent of women in tech report negative interactions with her male co-workers, and my experience was not an exception to that. Also there are double standards: A men can be considered ambitious and smart, meanwhile women can be thought of as bossy, which makes it a little more difficult to embark on leadership roles.
But even with these difficulties I cannot think of doing anything else, because I am one of the lucky few that gets to do what she loves. And if you are a girl interested in tech, all I can say is be true to your passion, keep your mind open to new ideas and be ready for change and if an opportunity comes, whether in the form of a chance to be in a science fair, starting your own science club or joining a coding program, take it and enjoy every minute of creation, failure and invention that comes with these