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The importance of tech education and highlighting women's achievements
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As part of our inspiring women in AI series of interviews, Kelly Vero, author of Breaking Through Bytes, highlights the historically overlooked contributions of women in technology and science, and advocates for more inclusive, early tech education.
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Continuous shot of Kelly face-on in an office environment.
If I was a nine-year-old in the 80s and I could find my way to work in technology as a 52-year-old today, I don't understand why we're asking young women what they want to do at the age of 15 when we should have been teaching them how to code when they were five.
So it makes me angry to think that we're still being forced into gender roles from a young age that we carry into the era where we should be making critical decisions about our future.
Some of the greatest things that we take for granted today were brought about by women being part of teams. And a lot of the women in my book talk about being team members. They don't want to stand alone as being the kind of leaders in this field when in fact most of the time they are.
Look at things like DNA, look at computer sciences. Some of the world's leading women have been completely shunned or forgotten about. So I would like them to have more opportunities with dialogue, and more voices in this space, and more diverse voices also.
Not everybody has a degree, but everybody is passionate about coding. And so in the conversations that I have, certainly, it would be great to see that there is much more of an open conversation from a younger age in education all the way out into career prospects and growing as organizations or individuals.
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