Headline Nov. 08/ ''' TECHNOLOGY CAREERS TEMPLATES '''

''' TECHNOLOGY 

CAREERS TEMPLATES '''

THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY  -*for every subject and discipline in the world*-  is the exclusive ownership of every women technologist-

Just as it is the exclusive ownership of every single student in the world. All in all : One share-Piece-Peace. See Ya all on signing up on !WOW!.

EUROPEAN WOMEN WORKING  in the technology field are very familiar with the concerns expressed by their counterparts in the United States-

*Too few girls and young women studying  science and technology in school, gender bias and sexual harassment in the workplace. But, they say, the problems play out in different ways*.

''We don't have a frat-boy culture, we have more of an old boys culture,'' said Anne-Marie Imafidon, co-founder of Stemettes, a British nonprofit aimed encouraging girls to pursue science, engineering, math and technology*.

Class differences, she said, play a bigger role in making outsiders feel alienated in the United Kingdom, than in the United States, but ''the result is the same.''

Over the past year or so in  the United states, one accusation of sexual harassment and gender bias in one high-profile company has barely died down before another pops up.

Susan Fowler, an Uber employee wrote a blog post in February and harassment and retaliation that landed like dynamite : after investigation and more revelations, Uber's chief executive, Travis Kalanick, left the company.

At Google, a software engineer was fired after writing a memo that argued that biological differences   -such as women experiencing higher levels of anxiety and less tolerance for stress explained why there were fewer women in top engineering and leadership positions at the company. 

And at the end of September, Dave McClue, the founder of the company 500 start-ups said he was stepping down after the New York Times reported he had made an advance to a woman who was applying for a job at his firm.

One of the biggest cases involved Ellen Pao, who sued her venture capital alleging gender discrimination and lost the case in 2015. She is back in the news with a book. ''Reset,'' about her experiences.

And, of course, there is the inevitable backlash, James Altizer, 52, an engineer at the chip maker Nvidia, declared in a recent times article that ''feminists in Silicon Valley had formed a cabal whose goal was to subjugate men.''

He called the firing of some male employees in tech companies ''a witch hunt,'' and said there were a growing number of men across Silicon Valley and elsewhere who felt as he did.

While American companies primarily the ones in the spotlight, they have a global reach, nor just because of their size, but because of the ways their actions resonate around the world. And if gender issues elsewhere don't make a headline-

Women on both sides of the Atlantic point to similar problems -although political and cultural disparities create different challenges and opportunities. 

For example, while being a working mother, especially in high-powered technology fields, can be difficult, the paid maternity leaves and state subsidized child care available in many European countries make life simpler.

Karoli Hindriks, 34 of Estonia, started her first company when she was 16. At 19,  she spoke before  the European Parliament about young entrepreneurs. And she didn't consider herself a feminist.

''I thought, if you're good enough, you'll get the position,'' she said. Then, she was propositioned by a possible investor. Writing about the episode in her blog, she described it as ''the most humiliating situation imaginable''.

She also said that when she was applying for an accelerator program for the company she currently heads, Jobbatical, she was told that she should leave the fact that she had a child off the application.

[Jobbatical matches global companies and job seekers in technology, business and creative fields].

''I was very full of myself when younger,'' she said. ''It has been eye opening.''  But one thing making her life easier is  ''that the state is supporting family so strongly.'' Ms. Hindriks said. ''We have 18 months'' paid paternity and maternity leave. Preschool cost nothing. Taking  care of a child is not an issue.''   

Geraldine Le Meur, 45 moved from Paris to San Francisco a decade ago to be, as she put it, ''in the center of the jet engine. It was the place and is the place to be when you are in the digital and tech space.''

One of the biggest cultural differences she found is how surprised people were that, as a mother of three, she opted to work full-time.

''It was almost shocking to people that I continue working rather than stay at home with the boys,'' said Ms. Le Meur., who started the Refiners, a San Francisco seed fund program to help foreign tech start-ups go global.

''It wouldn't be the same in France; it wouldn't be that surprising.'' And she also attributes the differing attitudes in state-subsidized day care and in an earlier starting age for school -3 years old rather than 5- in the United States.  

      

''You know that people taking care of your babies while you work are professionals,'' she said. ''I see friends here who have little kids who are super-conflicted.

If they're financially well-off, it doesn't seem right not to take care of the kids. My kids are the best part of my life, but not the only part.''

Shira Kaplan, 34, who moved with her husband from Israel to Zurich for his job, found that the message about combining motherhood and work was very different in Switzerland than in her native Israel.

Since she served in the elite cyber security intelligence unit in the Israel military, but when she became pregnant with with her first child while working at a private bank, she said she was constantly asked:

''Are you coming back? Are you coming back 100 percent? In the end, they restructured my team while I was on maternity leave and it was a very strong signal.''

She then started and now runs Cyverse, a firm that brings Israeli cyber-security expertise to Europe. Yet, even as the industry is increasingly eager show diversity by bringing on women-

''We're the new hot thing'' -she still feels different, not just about being a woman, but a young woman, she said.

The Honour and Serving of the latest Operational Research on the lives and environments of Student Girls and Women Technologists continues.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW!  -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW!  -the Ecosystem 2011:

''' Global Challenge '''

Good Night and God Bless

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless