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Science without Women

Science without Women

The Rome MAXXI is currently hosting the sixth edition of womENcourage 2019 to encourage and promote young female students and professionals operating in the ICT sector or who are interested in learning more about new technology.

 

"Young women have not participated in the IT Revolution. We estimate that out of every 100 individuals employed in this sector, only 4 are women. And in Computer Science faculties women only account for 10-15% of students. We wish to improve communication about the creativity of computer science, show its myriad applications, interdisciplinary nature, creativity …..."

 

Yesterday, during the opening day of the international conference, Cecilia Stajano, School Innovation Coordinator and Community Manager, interviewed Paola Velardi, Professor at the Sapienza Department of Computer Science and ACM womENcourage 2019 Programme Chair.

 

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