State of Women in Technology in MEAAdriana Rangel

SIS Research Director – IDC META

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In order to increase the number of Women in IT

We need to increase the number of Women Leaders in

Technology

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World’s 100 Most Powerful Women

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Virginia Rometty, CEO, IBM

Ursula Burns, CEO, Xerox Meg Whitman,

CEO, HP

Safra Catz, CFO, Oracle

Susan Wojcicki, SVP, Google Marissa Mayer,

CEO, Yahoo

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15

23

30

32

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Laurene Powell Jobs, Chair,

Emerson Collective

Cher Wang, Chairwoman, HTC

Padmasree Warrior, CTO,

Cisco

Amy Hood, CFO, Microsoft

Sun Yafang, Chairwoman,

Huawei

Mary Meeker, General Partner,

KPCBWeili Dai, Co-

Founder, Marvell Tech Group

Chua Sock Koong, CEO, SingTel

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Women in IT facts

28%88c

56%

9%

24%

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Barriers

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“Pretty like Mommy”

“Smart like Daddy”

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GeekyManly

Not for Girls

Too Hard

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Ambition Gap

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Bridges

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Nice Girls don’t get the Corner Office

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Embracing theDifference

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Being a Superhero

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Working Together

Thank You!Please contact me at:

arangel@idc.com