Break the bias! Celebrate the International Women's Day
We all need to take actions to #BreakTheBias.
Hello everyone! Ladies Who Tech are delighted to update our latest event and stories with you on International Women’s Day.
This is our first issue and will introduce who we are, update our future event, and recommend some excellent stories and a podcast to drive your week. We hope Ladies Who Tech London will be a safe and warm place where we break the bias, eliminate misogyny, and you can feel free to connect and build solidarity with many other amazing females in tech.
Who are we?
Ladies Who Tech was started by women who are in the STEM industries and believe in challenging the status quo by encouraging more women to assist and discover their potential in STEM. We want to raise awareness of the lack of women in the STEM industries and help companies to have more diversity.
We started our London Chapter since 2021. We would like to create one of the most inclusive and safest communities for female in tech industry in London, empower every member in our community to break the gender bias and stereotypes, promote the gender equality and encourage more women to bravely pursue their dreams.
Stay tuned for the NEW Event - Super talks: Bias & Data
As digital technologies are embedded in all aspects of human life, we also realized biases and discrimination have become increasingly common. To better respond to the prevalence of these biases in data projects, recruitment and workplace, Ladies Who Tech invites you to join our first offline event this year -- Super talks: Bias & Data, on April 9th.
Featured with speeches and panels, the event will invite three experts from various fields in tech to share their valuable experience and discuss about the scenarios with participants - . We will post our event registration form soon, so stay tuned!
Fun fact: do you know what’s the campaign theme for the IWD 2022?
It is: #BreakTheBias, which is exactly line with the theme of our future event in April! Learn more from the IWD webiste: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/theme
Special picks: Female role model stories and podcasts to brighten your day
Stories driving the week
Financial Times: Arundhati Bhattacharya: from veteran banker in male-dominated field to Salesforce’s India CEO
New York Times: From Dubai to Warsaw, Women Are Forming Their Own Watch Clubs
Economist: Kiara Nirghin on the gender divide in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Podcast(s)
Harvard Business review: Stacy Abrams and Lara Hodgson on starting and scaling a small business
We are looking forward to meeting you in our next event!
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