AGP Ep 10: Jenine Beekhuyzen—The superpowers of women in tech and how we can save the industry
Jenine Beekhuyzen is the Founder of The Tech Girls Movement, inspiring and empowering young women to consider and pursue careers in tech industries. Listen to hear about the skills gap we’ll face over the next 5-10 years and what we can do about it. We also discuss how we can normalise the conversation and what we can do to challenge our unconscious bias.
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As an extra bonus this week, you can get access to a conversation recorded after we went ‘off-air’ at the end of the episode. Listen to hear our post-show chat digging deeper into the challenges of political-correctness and Andrew’s discomfort in talking about this topic as a man. Andrew felt this was an important message to share, and Jenine agreed, so we’ve made this available.
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Show notes
- Upcoming events
- Book launch: Tech Girls are Superheros 2 (7 December 2016)
- Pre-order free copies for daughters, nieces or schools.
- Support the movement by buying a hardcopy or eBook.
- Competition: Search for the Next Tech Girl Superhero (8 March 2017)
- Get your daughters, nieces or school involved, follow on social media, or subscribe to hear more.
- Reach out to be a mentor (men or women), or make contact to offer your support in other ways
- Book launch: Tech Girls are Superheros 2 (7 December 2016)
- Jenine’s links
- The Tech Girls Movement
- Adriot Research (Jenine’s company)
- The Tech Girls feed into the global Technovation Challenge
- Jenine appeared on Good Game 12/11/2016
- Jenine’s TEDx talk
- Research
- The challenges women face in IT
- The benefits to business in embracing equality and diversity, could be:
- Cyber-bullying resources for children/parents
- Project Rockit I found http://projectrockit.com.au/
- Tara Moss
- Please subscribe, comment, share and review the episodes, it will make a big difference to our ability to continue with these. Thank you!
Credits
- Music by David Cutter
Topics/Transcript
Topics discussed
- The Tech Girls Movement
- Jenine’s diverse interests and career history
- On bullying, in school and cyber-bullying
- Tips for young women when considering a career in tech
- How tech leaders can support women in technology
- The role of a leader
Quotable
- 26:04 “my superpower is my smile. It is almost physically impossible for someone to frown at you if you smile at them”
- 38:17 “A leader is someone who is willing to have other people be better than them”
- 39:01 “A leader is someone who leaves and lets other people take over”
- 44:48 “If the overall goal of a company is to make more money, it just makes sense that diversity is one of the keys to them”