วันศุกร์ที่ 24 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2556
Focusing on
problem solving field, Google has been standing as a strongly integrated
company in the world. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal
working away to try and solve many big problems. An issue that arises along
this company’s lunge is that the company is currently addressing a quest to
increase the number of female computer engineers.
Google’s
co-founder, Larry Page said that Google had been focused on recruiting more
women to ensure that the company did not end up with all male workers. "The only answer is, we have to start early and make
sure we get more women and girls excited in technology. There's no question we
will double the rate of progress", Page added.
The giant company
has a number of year-round initiatives which aims to hire and educate more
women to be programmers; the program includes scholarships and events. The
annual event developers’ conference offers a rare public, visual example of the
industry’s gender gap and the company’s progress. In the past, the amount of
women who became attendees and speakers was low. But since the conference held
in 2008, Google started to working to shift the numbers. Based on Google’s Vice
President, Megan Smith stated if this year, there is an increasing number of
women who join the tech after the last conference.
Megan Smith, who works at Google, Google's semi-secretive experimental
wing that works on futuristic projects and prototypes said, "It’s been a
priority from the beginning ... the visibly of technical women is something we
really want to work on."
First they held a
concerted effort to find talented women in the field of expertise from around
the worldwide to be invited to the conference. “We felt like there were
incredible technical women who should be at I/O, who for whatever reason
weren't there. We did a lot of work to just make sure that we were increasing
the presence of women leaders on the stage and in demos", Megan Smith
added.
Google’s
program to increase the amount of women programmers is a smart way to improve
women’s skills which are not only limited in certain fields but can also be
expanded to the technology field. Thus, young women nowadays can be very interested
in having an impact to the world’s progress.
