Women are in a position to develop multiple sponsors, learn more about career opportunities that arise, and build positive reputations.
TweetShareShare When Tara Kelly was 9 years old, she built her first software program. Kelly, who is now the CEO of SPLICE Software, says this feat wasn’t because she was the Mozart of the tech industry. “It was something my father and I could work on together, it was fun, and it was a bonding experience between us.” As a result of her childhood, Kelly says she was an adult when she realized that women didn’t typically work in tech.
She launched Accenture’s Working Mothers’ Advisory group, which focuses on providing mentoring, support, and honest advice. “By developing such networks, women are in a position to develop multiple sponsors, learn more about career opportunities that arise, and build positive reputations that will bring their knowledge, skills, and abilities to the attention of multiple constituencies,” she says. And there are additional advantages to this strategy: women can build important social skills, and they won’t have to rely so much on one person.
And in the quest to diversify commonly male-dominated fields, such as STEM, it’s even more problematic. “For example, in 2017, less than 18% of all computer-science graduates were female,” Ogureck says. “Following the logic of any cumulative disadvantage, this trend then spills over into the professional world – only 29% of the science and engineering workforce are women.”
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