State of Women in Technology in MEAAdriana Rangel
SIS Research Director – IDC META
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In order to increase the number of Women in IT
We need to increase the number of Women Leaders in
Technology
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World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
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Virginia Rometty, CEO, IBM
Ursula Burns, CEO, Xerox Meg Whitman,
CEO, HP
Safra Catz, CFO, Oracle
Susan Wojcicki, SVP, Google Marissa Mayer,
CEO, Yahoo
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Laurene Powell Jobs, Chair,
Emerson Collective
Cher Wang, Chairwoman, HTC
Padmasree Warrior, CTO,
Cisco
Amy Hood, CFO, Microsoft
Sun Yafang, Chairwoman,
Huawei
Mary Meeker, General Partner,
KPCBWeili Dai, Co-
Founder, Marvell Tech Group
Chua Sock Koong, CEO, SingTel
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Women in IT facts
28%88c
56%
9%
24%
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Barriers
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“Pretty like Mommy”
“Smart like Daddy”
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GeekyManly
Not for Girls
Too Hard
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Ambition Gap
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Bridges
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Nice Girls don’t get the Corner Office
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Embracing theDifference
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Being a Superhero
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