*** BOOK UPDATE & ASK *** How Women Succeed in Tech!

Early this year, Fionnuala O’Conor and I shared that we were writing a book about how women succeed in tech worldwide. Our first step was asking those women what has made them stay and what they need to thrive in the next 5 years.

Thanks to all of you that either completed our survey or shared it with your networks. You’re the best!

The response to our survey has been great - we already have over 200 richly-detailed responses, from women in tech from startups to multinationals, of all ages and career levels, in 33 countries.

Your experiences are already giving us clues as to how women are best meeting these systemic challenges and building on our successes – we’ll be continuing this research over the next few months, and will be sharing with you our ongoing analyses and hypotheses so we can all help more of us enjoy more success in tech.

Now one ask: Could you get 2 more women in your tech network to complete the survey?

We’re particularly keen to hear from women in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, and from women everywhere who feel their experience may not be “typical” – if there is one stand-out message from responses so far, it is that there is often no straight line to women’s success in tech, and one of the biggest needs out there is for more diverse role-models and practical approaches to systemic realities.

Here is the survey link again https://forms.gle/BEQL4H8ETsVqbZ6h7​

Note that the definition of tech in the survey is broad - women working in any function (R&D, HR, services, finance) in the tech sector (software, hardware…) or in tech-related functions (e.g. IT, cybersecurity…) in other sectors.

Thanks again for your support to this project!