Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 6:55:51 GMT
The fight against the gender gap is a constant in different parts of the world. And inequality is very common in various areas, for example in technology.
According to El País, when Nora Alnashwan (Riyadh, 1993) began studying computer science at the Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Saudi Arabia, 11 programming classes were taught. In each of them there were approximately 25 students. The following year only six were taught. That is, 50% of the women who started the career abandoned it or changed to another discipline.
However, she decided to continue her studies and work at the Ministry of Public Administration and at Microsoft and is currently a developer at IBM.
The objective is to promote the vocation of adolescent girls in technological careers and reinforce the confidence they have in themselves.
For this reason, Code for Girls has been created, an organization that teaches programming to girls in Saudi Arabia and encourages them to solve real problems through technology.
According to informatics, “every year more women study careers related to technology, but this does not even remotely mean that all women who enter this industry graduate.
Alnashwan relates the abandonment of the sector to the way programming is taught in universities:
“It is designed for people who are very France Mobile Number List intelligent and as if not everyone can learn it. But it's not like that, it's like any other science. Everyone can understand it and apply it in their lives, but it is very important to teach it in a simple way.”
Code for Girls was launched in 2018 and together with Deema Alamer, who is also a developer, the IT team made sure that:
“Many girls want to learn to program but they don't have the right tools to do it in an attractive way.”
Despite the abandonment of the sector, the number of women working in technology increased from 7% to 12% from 2017 to 2018, according to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Saudi Arabia.
Code for Girls
This project aims to “reduce the gender gap in the industry, especially in the labor market, and build a supportive community among women.” To achieve this, workshops are organized in which they teach young girls “to think like entrepreneurs and use programming as a tool to help them solve the problems they see.”
In Saudi Arabia, women have not been treated as citizens. For a long time, they did not have access to education until the 60s of the last century, however they have not been able to work in sectors other than education or health.
Despite the announced changes, today women's rights remain scarce. As in other Muslim-majority countries, legislation based on Islamic law (Sharia) discriminates against women.
According to El País, when Nora Alnashwan (Riyadh, 1993) began studying computer science at the Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Saudi Arabia, 11 programming classes were taught. In each of them there were approximately 25 students. The following year only six were taught. That is, 50% of the women who started the career abandoned it or changed to another discipline.
However, she decided to continue her studies and work at the Ministry of Public Administration and at Microsoft and is currently a developer at IBM.
The objective is to promote the vocation of adolescent girls in technological careers and reinforce the confidence they have in themselves.
For this reason, Code for Girls has been created, an organization that teaches programming to girls in Saudi Arabia and encourages them to solve real problems through technology.
According to informatics, “every year more women study careers related to technology, but this does not even remotely mean that all women who enter this industry graduate.
Alnashwan relates the abandonment of the sector to the way programming is taught in universities:
“It is designed for people who are very France Mobile Number List intelligent and as if not everyone can learn it. But it's not like that, it's like any other science. Everyone can understand it and apply it in their lives, but it is very important to teach it in a simple way.”
Code for Girls was launched in 2018 and together with Deema Alamer, who is also a developer, the IT team made sure that:
“Many girls want to learn to program but they don't have the right tools to do it in an attractive way.”
Despite the abandonment of the sector, the number of women working in technology increased from 7% to 12% from 2017 to 2018, according to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Saudi Arabia.
Code for Girls
This project aims to “reduce the gender gap in the industry, especially in the labor market, and build a supportive community among women.” To achieve this, workshops are organized in which they teach young girls “to think like entrepreneurs and use programming as a tool to help them solve the problems they see.”
In Saudi Arabia, women have not been treated as citizens. For a long time, they did not have access to education until the 60s of the last century, however they have not been able to work in sectors other than education or health.
Despite the announced changes, today women's rights remain scarce. As in other Muslim-majority countries, legislation based on Islamic law (Sharia) discriminates against women.