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Biostandups tries to filter the best motivational and thought provoking experience from Women expertise across the world. Read their personal opinions and challenges faced by women to become very well recognised by the world. We hope our effort raise awareness and brings more openness in Indian women.
More than 300 technology leaders, innovators, policymakers, journalists and academics will gather Friday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Club to share their ideas on closing the gender and diversity gap in the technology sector. Speaking at the Advancing Women in Tech Conference will be BuzzFeed and Huffington Post founder Jonah Peretti, head of Uber Labs Charlene Wu, Mayor Eric Garcetti’s tech advisor Jeanne Holm and senior executives from Google, Box, Sony, Cisco, NBC Entertainment, Warner Bros., Atom Factory, the U.S. Economic Development Agency and the Los Angeles Business Journal, among many others.
Also speaking will be Dean Jayathi Murthy, who became the first woman to lead UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science last January.
“I’m looking forward to participating in the conversation as I think we’re approaching a turning point in the long-term issue of increasing the number of women working in the technology sector,” Murthy said in a statement. “The next steps are critical if we want to see improvements.”
This second annual conference is hosted by the UCLA Office of Information Technology under the UCLA Women in Tech initiative.
Dean Murthy answered a few questions from conference organizers Davida Johnson and Stefanie Pietkiewicz about her personal connection to the issue and how UCLA Engineering is striving to ensure diversity in its program.
My father is a civil engineer, and I saw as a child how much good he was able to do in the world. He graduated from engineering school soon after India obtained independence and spent the early part of his career building roads and bridges in some of the most remote and poor places in India. I saw how much of a difference that made, and how much respect he was held in. My admiration for my father translated into an admiration for engineering. Of course, I also loved the idea of doing something that girls didn’t normally do — breaking rules always had a big appeal for me. When I started going to engineering school myself, I found it fun and rewarding, and so a career in the field was natural.
Yes, of course. I was among the first handful of female engineers to graduate from IIT Kanpur in India, and there were naturally big challenges to do with that — people hadn’t really thought through what it meant to admit young women into an all-male institution. And if you are first at age 15, you’re first at age 50. So I’ve been first pretty much every step of the way. That means figuring out how to achieve your goals your own way, because there aren’t too many people around who have experienced what you are encountering.
Tech and engineering are terrific careers — that’s why we’re trying to increase the number of women in UCLA Engineering. An engineering career is creative, fun, lucrative and, ultimately, deeply important to society. So it is worth the fight. And things are getting better, though too slowly for some of us.
Our statistics are roughly on par with the other top public engineering schools, but none of us are nearly good enough. For example, last year 23 percent of UCLA engineering undergraduates were women, which is okay, but we are going to do much better.
One of the things we are going to kick off is a Women in Engineering program to focus on significantly increasing the number of women across the board — in our undergraduate and graduate programs and among our faculty. We have improved our numbers over the last decade, but I hope to change the rate of increase.
I’ve taken a pretty focused approach. At my old job, as department chair of mechanical engineering at University of Texas, Austin, I kicked off a program called 35-in-5, an explicit program to get to 35% women in the incoming class in five years. This meant looking hard at freshman admissions, understanding which high schools our female students came from, working on converting admits to acceptances, using our network of alumni, among other strategies. We were quite successful, going up some 6 percentage points in two to three years. And we worked hard on retention by embedding women students in research groups to give them a community to work in, among other things.
At UCLA, I hope to work across the entire pipeline, from admissions to retention to graduation and, ultimately, persistence and success in employment. I hope to form an ecosystem of female engineers in Southern California connected to UCLA who can help each other. We are just now thinking through this program, and you’ll be hearing about it soon.
I hope we come to a better understanding of the drivers that bring women to engineering and those that drive them away. And from this, I hope we can formulate successful strategies to significantly move our numbers.
By Davida Johnson and Stefanie Pietkiewicz | August 10, 2016. Source: UCLA NEWs ROOM
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