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Promoting Arab women’s role in tech industry
30-5-2017
Al Mustaqbal newspaper published on Sunday an article by the specialist in technology and entrepreneurship topics, Alicia Boler, on the participation of Arab women in the tech industry. Boler drew attention to a decline in female labor force participation rate in the sector as compared to men (26.9% only) which is equivalent to half the global rate (51.7%) according to World Bank figures. On this subject, Boler spoke to managing vice president of retail section at Gartner Research and Advisory Inc, Miriam Burt. The latter warned that “the region is facing a general inadequacy in the field of information technology in terms of skills needed to make the most of the technological revolution aimed to support new models of economic growth.” Boler said the gap in supply of technology professionals in the region is widening due to a general low representation rate of women in the workforce, pressing the need to overcome present challenges in order to inspire greater women engagement in the sector. Boler also interviewed Pamela Chikhani, co-founder of the non-profit organization, Reach Mentoring, established in Dubai in 2014, to provide extension services to women in the region and promote wider participation of women leaders in the regional labor force. Chikhani explained that the Middle East region has seen a series of remarkable achievements in the area of women empowerment, but that this did not prevent discrimination against them at the workplace. “The scarcity of female role models is among the main hindrances women currently face in the technology sector,” she said. (Al Mustaqbal, May 28, 2017
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