International Women's Day is already very soon, so let's talk about the "nezhenskaya" profession. Why is the "nezhenskaya"? So this is not a question for us. According to the study of Harvard Business Review, 41% of women working in IT are eventually leaving. And in the second quarter of last year, "Women In Tech" and "Krok" conducted a study called Wonderwomen, and it turned out that 56% of workers in IT were encountered with the statement that "technology is not for girls." Eh ... stereotypes.
So, we want to tell you about ordinary girls who tied themselves to IT, were able to destroy terrible stereotypes and prove that the woman can all. In the All-Russian Hakaton "Digital Breakthrough" we talked with real IT-Girls and learned interesting nuances of the profession.
Olga Lavrychenko, VSE Master's Student in St. Petersburg, decided to associate his life with the 6th grade: "Is it difficult to learn? Of course, it is difficult. For me, so to any person who demandingly looks at its activities, whether it is studying or work, belongs seriously regardless of gender. Live and learn".
By the way, Olga has its own team with which it participates in various contests and IT-hacatons. Her team ranked first and hit the "digital breakthrough" final, where they presented a way to obtain data to calculate the IQ-index of the cities of Russia. That's how it is, without difficulty, not to pull the fish out of the pond.
Irina Vereshchagin, at 22, created his own Didital Agency: "Design in IT for me about interaction with the user and the impact on it. Its main part is creativity that is closely related to technologies and logic. "
So it is not only a differ, but also creativity - minus 1 stereotype.
Real stories of real people: Olga Lavrychenko, Irina Vereshchagin, Katrin Catashavili and Evgenia Volkov
Katrine Katashaili began to master a new profession after 30 years: "As practice has shown, to learn something, really to master new skills can be possible only in extreme conditions."
Again goodbye stereotype. Live and learn.
Evgenia Volkova engaged in interfaces and programming, develops its business in the field of industrial automation and scientific research: "In a scientific environment, it is necessary to prove their right to be called scientists. It-environment is more freed in this regard - only your professional skills and skills are important here.
Here it all depends only on you, you yourself create a product and does not depend on anyone.
You do not need to take seriously all these labels and stereotypes, which are simply abundance in our world. Myth is destroyed: it is not only for men.