1. Changing
the ratio
Ann O’Dea
CEO, editor-at-large

3. “Women account for one-half of
the potential talent base
throughout the world.
Therefore, over time, a nation’s
competitiveness depends
significantly on whether and how it
educates and utilises its female
talent.”
Klaus Schwab

4. The proportion of women among full professors
was lowest in engineering and technology, at
7.9%

5. New Gender Benchmarking Study Finds
Numbers of Women in Science and Technology
Fields Alarmingly Low in Leading Economies

7. “Unconscious Gender Bias - Both men
and women overvalued work they
believed to be done by men, and
undervalued work they believed to be
done by women.”
Nancy Hopkins, MIT
Research: Yale University, 2012

8. While the perception is that barriers to women
leaders involve … inadequate childcare, and
labour laws, one of the biggest barriers was lack
of role models

18. WomenInvent@siliconrepublic.com
#WomenInvent
@annodeaSR

20. “The reason there aren’t
enough women computer
scientists is because there
aren’t enough women
computer scientists.”
Sheryl Sandberg