Gender inequality, expressed, for example, in the wage gap or in the low participation of women in decision-making positions, was once again one of the strongest demands last Sunday, in a new march for International Women's Day.
The IT sector is no exception to this problem.
In fact, in our country only 30% of the staff working in this industry is female. In addition, companies face difficulties to add women to their work teams since, of the young people who study careers related to the sector, 80% are men.
This scenario implies a bottleneck for an industry that depends heavily on the knowledge generated in academia.
For this reason, several public and private actors have launched initiatives to encourage more women to study and work in this ecosystem.
What are these initiatives and are they sufficient? In short: How is the gender imbalance in the sector being addressed?
Participaron Natalia Da Silva, licenciada en Economía y PhD en Estadística, profesora adjunta en el Instituto de Estadística (IESTA) de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas e Investigadora Nivel I de la ANII, miembro activa de la comunidad R; Karina Santo, Ingeniera de Sistemas formada en la Universidad de la República (Uruguay), socia fundadora y directora de GeneXus Consulting; Fabiana Hernández, socióloga y coordinadora del Programa b_IT de Cuti e INEFOP, ejecutiva People Talent en Cuti; y Micaela Perdomo, analista de sistemas, directora de Nareia Humano, empresa de desarrollo de software. Integrante de la mesa de mujeres de Cuti
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