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Despite decades of advancements toward professional #equality, women are still deeply #underrepresented in the #tech industry.
Did you know that:

• The #percentage of #women in tech was actually higher in the 1980s than it is today;
• 50% of the tech #startups have no women on their #leadership teams;
• #Technology is the only #STEM #career in which the number of women has #decreased over the past 20 years;
• Women have only 21% of the tech #jobs at #Google and make up only 31% of the company’s #workforce.

These numbers and statistics are striking!
Thus, how to power progress and gender equity in the Tech industry?

To answer this question, Digitalcity.brussels interviewed in April 2023, Anneleen Demasure - CEO of Belgium-based digital experience agency ⁠Dropsolid -
whose mission is to connect #human & digital / business & technology. How? By offering the best #digital experiences for #businesses and their #stakeholders in all freedom (#opensource technology). Open source is their #DNA and as a digital experience #agency they share their knowledge, code, and expertise by using key #opentechnology, such as #Drupal or #Mautic.

With +10yrs of experience, at Skinn, Wijs and Idee Fiks, Anneleen Demasure has achieved strong results in #customer #relations and #strategic #growth. She aims in bringing the best open digital #experiences to businesses and to #tailor it to each user's specific #needs.

"Too often, we see technology as wireframes or code or design where, in the end, they are (vital) solutions for people to be helped, to be heard, to find their way, to be unburdened..."

LISTEN to Anneleen’s thoughts on being a woman in technology, what was her path towards the digital world, what keeps her motivated and her #advice for anyone who wants to make a career in IT. Very insipring!

www.digitalcity.brussels

You can follow Anneleen on her LinkedIn profile