How This Founder Partnered With Google and Unicef to Bring More Women Into Tech
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When Tara Chklovski moved to the U.S. from India to pursue an advanced degree in aerospace engineering, she was shocked to see how few women were pursuing STEM degrees.
"I was just very, very surprised that a developed country like the U.S. had such few women in the actual innovation and tech engineering space," she says, recalling her days as the only woman on a research team working on drone development.
Chklovski felt uncomfortable working on warfighting machines anyway, so in 2006, she left her PhD program and founded the non-profit Technovation, whose mission is to encourage more women to pursue STEM degrees and become tech leaders and innovators. Right now, less than a third of global tech workers are women, according to a report released Thursday by the AI Forward Alliance (Taifa), a group that includes Technovation, Unicef, Google, Shopify, and others. With the right initiatives in place, that number could double by 2038. Read More...
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2 个月This article truly resonates with me! As someone with experience in tech and media project coordination, I am passionate about fostering diversity and increasing the representation of women in tech. Seeing how partnerships like those with Google and UNICEF are creating real opportunities for women is inspiring and motivates me to continue pursuing tech roles. I’d love to learn more about how I can contribute to initiatives like these and connect with others driving positive change in the industry. Thank you for sharing such a powerful story!
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