This insightful panel features women in technology as they discuss their experience in traditional coding vs. the new, more equitable opportunities they see in no-code.
With Netta as the moderator, she asks important questions around equity in a typically male-dominated space. Below is a sneak peek at some of the insightful discussion.
With the shift into no-code, do you see the field changing?
Both Dara and Elsie certainly believe it does.
“It allows me to get the talent in faster, but also allows me to give other people chances as well.”
When recruiting for engineers at Grayscale, a leader in digital currency investing and cryptocurrency asset management, Elsie is constantly looking for “different ways that I can bring more women.” She explains one of her strategies. “I’ll send them to the three-week Unqork boot camp to train them to be an Unqork developer and admin configurator on my team. That just changes the entire pool—not just women, but from all diverse backgrounds—I can recruit from. When I’m interviewing, I’m looking for people with an if-then mindset. It allows me to get the talent in faster, but also allows me to give other people chances as well.”
Dara adds to this by saying, “It allows us to bring in people who have the right thought processes. They have the ability to think like engineers—maybe without all of the technical training—which allows us to have really, really successful career changers.”
What barriers do you think there are in getting more women?
Josie, a former PE teacher turned engineer, is one of those career changers! She gets real about the barriers for women in tech. “Some of the biggest barriers are lack of mentors and lack of female role models,” she says. Inherent gender bias in workplaces means that “sometimes women are put into the box of project management, when really they just want to code and be a software engineer or a developer.”
“I grew up in the public school system. There were programs that were not accessible to me,” Tasliym adds. “STEM programs that were not accessible to me in any way. So I think it’s just about giving women across the board the opportunity to see tech as a viable industry and an accessible one.”
How has Unqork changed the way you see women in technology?
“Wow, where do I start?” asks Josie. She talks about feeling inspired that her first three managers were women. “I think that helps me reach out to them to be a mentee and ask them, ‘What have you done to get where you are now?’”
Watch the full panel to learn more from these inspiring women, including advice for women who are thinking about getting into tech but don’t know where to start!
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