Women in IT👩🏻💻
Throughout history, women have played a vital role in technology. From Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, women in information technology paved the way for much of the computing power we take for granted today. Many people have a stereotype that IT is a man's industry and don't even know that many global tech companies are run by women. Here is a few examples👇🏻
🔸 Safra C., CEO of Oracle
In 1999 Safra joined Oracle as its senior vice president. She joined the company's board of directors in 2001 and was named president in 2004. Under Catz's direction, Oracle initiated more than 130 acquisitions and mergers over the next decade. The most well-known of these acquisitions was direct rival PeopleSoft, which Oracle acquired in 2004 for $10.3 billion.
In 2014, Catz became co-CEO of Oracle, along with Mark Hurd. She became the CEO in 2019, after Hurd's death. She also teaches accounting at the Stanford School of Business and was elected to the board of directors of the Walt Disney Co. in 2017.
🔸 Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft
As the first female CFO in Microsoft's history, she now works to increase the big tech company’s long growth while promoting a culture of equality. Hood is focused on bringing additional Black-owned partners and suppliers into Microsoft’s network. She is a big proponent of equality for women in large leadership roles and speaks regularly at events such as Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit.
🔸 Elizabeth Churchill, Senior director of user experience at Google
Elizabeth held positions at various tech companies, including Yahoo, eBay and Google. She is currently Google's director of user experience. In this role, Churchill researches and presents on topics related to computer science, psychology, design, analytics and anthropology to make user experience more precise and efficient. Churchill also serves as the vice president of the Association of Computing Machinery. She also has more than 50 patents granted or pending and more than 100 published articles in multiple fields of psychology and computing.
Try to guess in comments: what percentage of IT specialists are women?🤔
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