digi women ann o'dea april 16
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Changing
the ratio
Ann O’DeaCEO, editor-at-large
“Women account for one-half of
the potential talent base
throughout the world.
Therefore, over time, a nation’s
competitiveness depends
significantly on whether and how it
educates and utilises its female
talent.”
Klaus Schwab
The proportion of women among full professors was lowest in engineering and technology, at
7.9%
New Gender Benchmarking Study Finds Numbers of Women in Science and Technology
Fields Alarmingly Low in Leading Economies
“Unconscious Gender Bias - Both men
and women overvalued work they
believed to be done by men, and
undervalued work they believed to be
done by women.”Nancy Hopkins, MIT
Research: Yale University, 2012
While the perception is that barriers to women leaders involve … inadequate childcare, and
labour laws, one of the biggest barriers was lack of role models
“The reason there aren’t
enough women computer
scientists is because there
aren’t enough women
computer scientists.”
Sheryl Sandberg