“Recognise and embrace your uniqueness… being a black woman, being a woman in general, on a team of all men, means that you are going to have a unique voice. It’s important to embrace that.”
— Erin Teague, Director of Product Management at YouTube
“I didn’t set out to work in technology – I just wanted to improve people’s experience of public services. Tech turned out to be the place where I could make the biggest difference.”
“By having the courage to take the first step into rooms, circles, and conversations where you may feel like you don’t belong, you also open the door for others to contribute their diverse perspectives.”
“Women are not 50% of the tech sector yet, but we will get there.”
– Maya Vasileva, Software Engineer, Engine by Starling
“I have very personally felt the overwhelming loneliness, self-doubt, and frustration that often comes with the minority status of a woman in engineering… the more women (and minorities) that enter and don’t leave the field, the better it all gets for everyone, including me!”
“Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what’s going to happen.”
“Don’t limit yourself by thinking technology is only coding. There’s a lot more to tech, from project management to data analysis, and there’s always room for creative problem solvers.”
“One day there won’t be female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
“Women no longer have an ‘if I can’ mindset. Now it’s more about ‘how I can’ — be in tech, start something in tech, fund something in tech.”
“I think it’s very important to get more women into computing. My slogan is: computing is too important to be left to men.”
– Karen Sparck Jones, Professor, Cambridge Computer Laboratory
“Women shouldn’t be afraid to put themselves forward.”
– Sarah Wood, tech entrepreneur and executive
“No matter how much you progress in your career, you can never know it all. Every day is a school day for me, whether in work or my fitness journey.”
“If this is something that you really want to do, if you believe in it… simply keep forging forward because success will come.”
– Cassandra Sanford, tech CEO and entrepreneur
“It’s so easy for us to get caught up in negative patterns, versus seeing what positive change you can make. Especially for women and minorities, we need to learn to see challenges as stepping stones instead of hurdles.”
– Rebecca Garcia, programmer and tech inclusion advocate
“If you’re not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you’ll be left behind.”
– Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, on pushing the frontier of tech
