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TAKE WAY
JOURNAL JOURNAL
FALL 2016
EMPOWER WOMEN
BY: BETHEL ZEGEYE
November 16 2016
How can we empower women to get involved in Tech Jobs
and Leadership roles?
THEMES
OBJECTIVES:
The main
thingWhat I hope
to get out of that I
hoped to get out
of this class was
how diversity
impact the
working
environment.
Its
complicated
Empowerme
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1.4 million Openings for Tech jobs by 2018, only 29% of it will be filled by
women. Why are their less women going for these tech jobs? What are the impact
of not having diversity in this industry?
During Lecture Professor Laura have said Mike have already retired from the
ISchool however, he goes around the country giving speeches to educators. On the
speech we watched in class the thing that I thought was interesting was how he said
human compression (human processing brain) havent increased/improve, while
technology have been getting bigger and better. That was really fascinating to hear.
Also the community at the ISchool is very supportive and that stuffs are amazing
CAREER LEVEL
Elementary school
Middle School
-Teachers/counselors underestimating
young girls
College
Early Career
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Mid-Career
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Leadership
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The chart above shows the problems such as:: why girls/women dont go for
STEM field and leadership roles at different point of their lives? And Solution what we
can do to empower them to pursue these fields? Girls at early age are introduced to what
the roles of gender are are. The y games they play, the books they read are very different
from boys. I really believe in motivating girls as early as possible to pursue STEM field
is very significant. Parents have huge role they play at early ages, because they can buy
them girls toys like Legos to help young girls enhance their technical skills. In class one
of the guest speakers who was founder of TAf academy said She also said sStarting
young on STEM will also help the youth that is why TAF academy is very successful.
Also in middle and high school, parents and teachers have huge impact on young girls,
because they can guide them to go for STEM field. They motivate them to join clubs at
school, and encourage them to goattend after school programs that can boost their
technical skills. Professor Laura saidalso mentioned, Special skills boys have more,
since they believe their meant to do this, however with little effort it can be balanced.
This is not just empowering for me to hear but, it gives hope that if I work hard and put
effort I can do anything that I put my mind toocan be successful. Therefore young
women in college need to hear that because, college can be hard and make them feel
worthless/not smart enough, and however it give students hope that if they put in effort
they can succeed no matter the gender or race.
Also schools should encourage college students to participate in researches and
internships. Kathleen works at AT&T as cybersecurity, plus and she was one of the first
guest speakers. She said that at her work, less than 10 percent of cyber security workers
are women! Every year there are one million open position in the cybersecurity field and
it pays well. Interns make 64k per year at AT&T. This is one of the good reasons why
students should to get an internships,, students can earn money and gain new skills. She
also said AT&T might hire their interns, which the starting salary is 80K. This is a huge
opportunity so,for colleges to encouraging women to go to career fairs and meet with
employers, andas well as try to get internships. tThat would eliminate the struggles ofbe
gre at transition forom college to the early career stage offor life. On the last day of
class, one of the alums said you may went to school for your whole life and some of you
since kindergarten nonstop and its weird to transition to the real world. This is why
getting internship and having the chance of getting hired after graduation in a place
where the environment seems familiar can help on the transition from school to the
working world. At work place, higher management might think women are not reliable
because of maternity leaves and that impacts womens career in a big way. They might
not be promoted, get hired and that impacts women in many more ways. That is whay, I
believe women are creating their own businesses faster than the average, because they
are in charge and they make their own schedule in however it works for them. Creating
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owns business is taking on a huge leadership role. On the other side being in a leadership
position in a company can create many problem. , oOld men having issues that a woman
areis in charge and many stigmas that comes with it. On the chart, on the leadership part
the chart, there is a quote that I took from one of the readings in class and it shows how
Facebook and Ggoogle are trying to move women that are qualified to the job in to a
leadership position roles. What Facebook and Google are trying to work on is a huge
motivation for women, to go for higher paying technical jobs. It might be a complicated
issue however, when young woman like Imyself notice that big companies, parents, and
teachers are encouraging girls me to pursue STEM field, it shows me and motivate
megirls to pursue theseat careers.
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say from last day of class mentioned that, Diversity broads your markets which means,
more money. This is because people have different experiences and perspective with
problem solving and having that asset in organization will leave the company better off.
If a company doesnt consider or have diversity, they are ignoring half of the population
which are half of the consumers and half of the work force. Big companies hiring a
diverse group can help minority groups in achieving their goals and inspire younger
generations
CAREER PLAN
Background Story: I am a junior majoring in Economics. What I love about the fact that
Eeconomics is that it have every part of business, like such as, marketing, analyzing and
many more things. The one thing that attracted me to economics is the human interaction
part of it. My sophomore during winter I took Info 101 with Professor Bob as an elective
and that is how I was introduced to the informatics program. I really enjoyed that class, I
liked the environment of itthe class. I wasnt sure if I was interested in informatics by the
end of the quarter but, I really enjoyed the class. So I decided to take another Informatics
class during spring quarter, I took Info 200 with Professor Mike Freemen. I loved the
class, it gave me a whole new perceptive on ISchool and how information system works.
Also this school year I ended up taking two Info classes, I really enjoyed how its group
based, and and iit teaches thoughtme how present my ideas and improved my problem
solving skills. I am plaining on applying to the informatics major by the end of this
school year and Im very excited about it. The one connection that I made with
economics and informatics is the data analyzing and the human interaction part,
suchinteraction. Such as economics we predict how customers react to price changes and
other things using data. AndAlso in informatics we can use analyzed data and think
about how we can we can make it translate this information to people/customers using
technology.
Dream Job: I really want to intern at a startup company this summer and right now I
am applying to whatever Im qualified for. Because in the future Im hoping to create
and own my own business and working at a startup company will expose me to learn the
struggle and the ways of having a new business. However before all that thought I really
want to work at Boeing as a data Analysis. Also Boeing pays for my tuition if I decide to
go to graduate school which, Im planning too. I want to get my MBA from UW after a
few years of getting undergrad degree. If that whole thing works out by the end, I really
want to help low income, underrepresented students get to college and help them be
succeedssful in college.
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PROFESSOR LAURA
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