Digi women ann o'dea april 16

Changing

the ratio

Ann O’DeaCEO, editor-at-large

“Women account for one-half of

the potential talent base

throughout the world.

Therefore, over time, a nation’s

competitiveness depends

significantly on whether and how it

educates and utilises its female

talent.”

Klaus Schwab

The proportion of women among full professors was lowest in engineering and technology, at

7.9%

New Gender Benchmarking Study Finds Numbers of Women in Science and Technology

Fields Alarmingly Low in Leading Economies

“Unconscious Gender Bias - Both men

and women overvalued work they

believed to be done by men, and

undervalued work they believed to be

done by women.”Nancy Hopkins, MIT

Research: Yale University, 2012

While the perception is that barriers to women leaders involve … inadequate childcare, and

labour laws, one of the biggest barriers was lack of role models

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“The reason there aren’t

enough women computer

scientists is because there

aren’t enough women

computer scientists.”

Sheryl Sandberg