Saujani: Women were early tech power users but excluded from leadership
Reshma Saujani · Tap into collective genius (with Girls Who Code’s Reshma Saujani) | Masters of Scale · Nov 14, 2023 · at 13:45
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, discusses what motivated her to address the gender gap in the technology sector.
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“I was paying attention to what was happening in tech, and the fact that so many of these products were being used by women, but women weren't sitting around the table.”
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