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Women in IT: Female Role Models at ITI
Women who work in IT agree: there is a lack of female role models to encourage girls to pursue a career in IT, a dynamic, constantly evolving, but still male-dominated field. To address this gap, on International Women’s Day, ITI presents the testimony of three women who are passionate about IT.
Caroline, from Video Games to Azure Solutions
Caroline began her career in video game marketing, before reorienting herself in customer support and technology sales. At ITI, she responds to her clients’ business problems by offering them Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions.
Honestly, it was never a topic for me to be a woman in IT. As I come from marketing and sales, I have often been surrounded by all types of profiles. IT is a dynamic and ever-changing field with multiple opportunities, so everyone can find their place in it!
Stéphanie, Data Scientist and Engineer
Holder of a PhD in applied machine learning, Stéphanie has been an engineer and data scientist since 2020. She collects, processes and structures data to make it usable in analytical solutions, whether it is business intelligence or artificial intelligence. Her expertise also allows her to develop artificial intelligence models providing valuable insights and innovative solutions.
At university, I noticed that there were few women in computer science, and even fewer women from diversity. I feel like it’s very much a question of representativeness: women don’t see many role models who look like them in the IT professions, so they don’t necessarily go there. I feel a duty to change that, to talk about my experience in IT, to break down the biases. My career proves that a woman can be fully fulfilled in IT while remaining true to herself, far from the usual stereotypes!
Valérie, from technician to architect
Valérie has specialized over her 25 years of experience in IT, going from technician to analyst and now architect. She says she’s proud to be an IT architect and proud of her career, but she’s not particularly proud of being a woman in IT. She notes, however, that in the highly competitive and male-dominated field of IT, women sometimes have twice as much to prove.
We are lucky at ITI: people don’t stop at gender to judge skills and qualities.
