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Amanda Saleh • June 28, 2015
Top Tips for Women to Ride the ICT Boom
How to get in and succeed
– Be prepared to broadcast your successes and get a ‘can-do’ mentality. The idea that men are somehow more suited to technical work and coding is purely cultural, as the Bletchley Park women proved back in World War 2 [5]. To stay with the pack, or ahead of it, be sure to keep updating your skills in the latest developments and programs as they start to trend.
If the brave new world isn’t arriving fast enough, things should start to get better:
Melinda Gates says hiring women is good for business: ‘when you invest in women you invest in the people who invest in everybody else’ [7].
And finally.
It’s especially hard for women returning to work after a break and especially for workers over 50 who experience ‘skills atrophy’ and find it hard to catch up in the digital native world. If you want to start up your own business for instance, you really need to have a digital footprint and make the best use of all the communication streams available to build your business. Not having or feeling able to acquire the skills doesn’t have to be a problem though, you can easily outsource the work [hopefully to some other women!]
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