You and The Internet of Women: Be Fearless!
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Monique Morrow, Cisco CTO –Evangelist-New Frontiers-Engineering gave her talk "You and The Internet of Women: Be Fearless!" at the SIT International Symposium on Gender Equality 2015 held in the SHIBAURA Institute of Technology, Japan. She presented the real situation of women in tech, and delivered the call to action on "SHE Economy" to change the world for our future, Internet of Women!
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- 1. You are The Internet of Women: Be Fearless! Monique Jeanne Morrow, mmorrow@cisco.com, Twitter: @mjmorrow • CTO –Evangelist-New Frontiers-Engineering December 5 2015
- 2. 1.The Situation 2. Call to Action
- 4. Cisco 4© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. “Women comprise over 51% of the world economy – yet they are often overlooked in times of crisis” http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
- 6. Cisco Open 6© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agents of Change: Women in the Information Security Profession “The information security discipline is not evolving fast enough. Most notable, women represent just 11% of this profession.”
- 7. Why So Few Women?
- 10. Diversity Enhances Teams Groups with greater diversity solve complex problems better and faster than homogenous groups. Scott Page, The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies, Princeton University Press, 2009.
- 11. What the Research Says
- 12. Let’s Cut to the Chase Technical Women Aren’t Broken Technical Men Aren’t The Enemy Culprit = Societal Biases We All Share We Can Take Action Together
- 13. How Stereotype Threat Shows Up in Technical Environments • Not speak up in meetings • Be reluctant to take leadership positions • Be overly harsh about their own work • Discount their performance
- 14. Subtle Dynamics Example: Micro-inequities Slights: “Actually, Susan has a good idea.” Exclusion: “Oops, I forgot to cc her on the email about the architecture review.” Recognition: “No, I’m pretty sure Jane would not have had the idea to use a link algorithm.” Isolation: “Dude, let’s talk about it over a beer!”
- 15. Hiring Selecting people “like me” Task Assignment Women find themselves in “low status” jobs Performance Appraisal Men appraised for effort, skill; women for collaboration, luck Promotion Criteria modeled implicitly on existing senior male leaders Institutional Barriers
- 16. Call to Action
- 17. If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. – Marian Wright Edelman
- 18. Aspiring for A Supercritical Human Elevated Economy [SHE] integrating human values is an opportunity to innovate for jobs. This will mean more flow of ideas, more flow of innovation, and much more possibilities of expansion. SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy
- 19. SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy The Technology of the SHE platform •The Open Source will be a key modality for this platform, while a block chain technology can retain a trust ledger for the SHE platform. SHE API governance will be via an auction mechanism to determine the value of a proposed API. •Open Source is one of the more successful concepts that catalyzes innovation and leads to opportunities. • Open Source utilizes the power of the crowd to develop, modify, share and improve, available to anyone in the world. Mozilla Firefox and the Arduino board for robotics are both example of Open Source software platforms that are used and improved by people around the world for free.
- 20. • GitHub will provide the foundation for the platform, enabling Open Source collaboration and development. Women from all over the world can work together, learn from one another, and empower one another to succeed, all via access to the Internet and through smart phone and tablets. • There are many startup companies working on disrupting education in general, propelled by increased access through the Internet. • Companies like XPRIZE are helping to catalyze innovation in the education space through multi-million dollar incentivized prizes to software developers who successfully develop self teaching software that a child can figure out with no human intervention. SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy
- 21. • Imagine dropping a charged tablet into a remote village that had never seen a smartphone or tablet, and within hours not only would the children have figured out how to turn it on, but they self taught opening and playing with applications. • In order to financially democratize the platform, block chain technology, also known as digital currency, can be employed. • This is where multiple encryption techniques can be used to regulate, record and verify money transfer between parties, and operates completely independently of a traditional bank without concern for geographical, cultural, religious or political borders. SuperCritical Human Elevated [SHE] Economy
- 22. • Implement a media campaign showing men advocating for women and highlighting women leaders; • Also produce a film as a call to action like: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGGrUx666s • Showcase women leaders historically in education, schools; • Think of an equivalent of a Nobel Prize for the company-country that embraces women as equal partners; • Emphasize Mentorship and networking opportunities in Japan and private industry levels – show case these examples engaging men and women together; • Support hackathons for girls and women by women with men as coaches; e.g iotchallenge-cisco.younoodle.com • Encourage skills training for women mid-latter careers, “It’s Never Too Late “ Campaign; • Encourage mixed gender panels for conferences; • Support female entrepreneur “pitches” with coaching sessions before mixed gender judges. Some Recommendations
- 23. What Does Success Look Like?
- 24. Women Engineers in Development http://iotchallenge-cisco.younoodle.com/
- 25. Simply put, once women connect, they engage; once then engage, they embrace; once they embrace, they drive. And that’s the future. It is the Internet of Women!
Editor's Notes
- - amazingly when it comes to gender equality as a basis for a 21st century digital society, the failure to include this category of our world population as catalysts for change is great, even more so tragic. Gender-Equality often takes a second seat to “other economic issues of importance “ yet Gender Equality is foundational for those other issues. Do not under-estimate the impact culture, media and education have as a catalyst for change, simply put, “If you cannot see it, you cannot be it.” but the size and range of our problems has barely changed. Despite all of our previous efforts to affect the status quo through the Millennium Development Goals, the same complex structural issues persist and affect billions worldwide. These are our results as institutions, but young people, 15-24, have been hard at work identifying and developing solutions to global problems, and this trend is not to be underestimated. The creative strategies of youth tackling varying elements of these widespread problems, from education access and infrastructure development to sexual harassment and gender equality, have demonstrated the necessity of leveraging technology in ways we had never imagined. Young people have spurred a newfound literacy in our approach to economic development and cooperative problem solving. Therefore, the priority must be supporting driven young people striving to improve their communities. Government and industry support is vital to achieving these goals at scale. We have seen disparate examples of such public-private partnerships steadily emerging around the world. Yet while there is much conversation about supporting young people, a lack of action persists. Still, an international focus that prioritizes capturing and applying lessons from narratives of youth innovation will engender limitless possibilities for sustainable transformation.
- Cybersecurity
- 1) WOMEN REFLECT CUSTOMER BASE 2) WOMEN IMPROVE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 3) WOMEN CAN FILL GROWING # OF JOBS 4) WOMEN IMPROVE COMPANY PERFORMANCE 1) If 50% of your user base isn’t represented in your design team, how can you expect to know what women want, or how they will use your product? 2) The presence of women in a group is more likely to increase the collective intelligence (problem-solving ability, creativity) of the group than the presence of individuals with higher intelligence. (“Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups,” Science October 2010, Woolley, Chabris, Pentland, Hashmi and Malone.) Groups with greater diversity solve complex problems better and faster than homogenous groups. (Scott Page, The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies, Princeton University Press, 2009.) 3) Women are 50% of the workforce. There will be an estimated 1.4 million computing-related jobs in the workforce by 2020, yet at current graduation rates we’ll produce only enough candidates to fill 30% of those jobs. Meanwhile, women are earning more than half of all undergraduate degrees, more than 60% of biology degrees, 42% of math degrees. They are a untapped workforce. 4) Analysis of more than 20,000 venture-backed companies showed that successful startups have twice as many women in senior positions as unsuccessful companies. (Dow Jones VentureSource, 2011.) Tech companies with women have been shown to use 40 percent less capital and be more likely to survive the transition from startup to established company. (Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures: "High Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High-Tech," 2010.) Tech companies with the highest representation of women in their management teams have a 34% higher return on investment than those with few or no women. (Catalyst, The Bottom Line, 2004.)
- Let’s consider this diversity thing with a non-gender-related problem. Any left-handers here? A couple of years ago a major company released a very popular phone, and people quickly began to complain about dropped calls when the phone was held a certain way. Turns out that because of where the company positioned the antenna in this phone, this problem particularly affected left-handed people, who happened to hold the phone in the “wrong” way more often. WE ALL EXPERIENCE THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT WAY and it’s important to bring as many of those experiences as possible into the development and design of technology. (The company’s charismatic founder was ambidextrous, BTW.)
- We are going to roll through a ton of social science research in 10 minutes – we won’t do it justice
- All of these examples are subtle, tiny jabs that erode a woman’s sense of belonging, confidence, her sense that she fits in. For the men involved, it’s also subtle, right? It’s not like this is discrimination, here. Again, it’s the fact that these things are said unconsciously, that they speak to the status quo, that make them insidious. Can make women feel as if they don’t really belong and can undermine the meritocracy of your organizations. Class room example
- Technology, for us, is the bull. What is needed is to train more women to hold the bull by its horns and create a new generation of tech-females. Imagine disrupting unemployment via a Global Supercritical Human Elevated Economy platform powered by women using open source software and where the consumption is via a smart device. Imagine disrupting the cultural barriers via the SHE Platform