When I sat down to write this blog, I got a little bit stuck.
Thinking of a topic for International Women’s Day (IWD) proved… challenging.
The theme of 2023’s IWD is: DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.
Of course, we could tell you what that means, but we think it’s best to let the UNWomen speak for themselves.
We would talk about how women and girls across the world can be empowered and propelled by greater access to digital technologies, but the Poverty Action Lab has that one covered, too.
Then let’s stay closer to home.
Why don’t we talk about how ‘online learning provides an invaluable opportunity to level the playing field for women by connecting them to better opportunities and prospects?’
We could… but I took that quote directly from The World Economic Forum’s article on how we can use online learning to narrow the digital gender gap.
Okay, so, what can we add to the conversation that isn’t already out there?
You know what we haven’t mentioned?
Our voices.
As a majority-female workplace working within the technology industry, we have a wide variety of personal experiences that can bring value and grounding to the conversation.
At SiyonaTech, we work hard to make our culture fit our people, so I went back to the team and asked the women (and female-presenting) members of the team about what challenges they’ve faced in the workplace.
This is what they had to say: