Most of the industry events that I go to
are full of loud, smelly men. All of who think they are gods gift to online
advertising, and more of who are clueless fools. It’s great fun!
Yesterday,
to celebrate the fact that not everyone in my industry has to shout in a loud
Australian accent to be successful I went along to a launch even for something
called Geek Girls Meet Up. It’s a global initiative that started in Sweden and
has spread through London, Brazil the US and is now coming to Singapore,
designed to bring together girls working in design, tech and start up companies
to bring them all together into more of a community unit.
I’ve
never had any issues with working in a male dominated environment (other than
the fact that I always seem to have very low respect for direct male managers –
who knows why!) but it’s always good to have a little girl power session every
now and then. Also, championing females in the tech industry has become one of
my targets for the year or so ahead.
This
week I was nominated to join the Leadership Council for the governing body of
my industry. I have absolutely no chance of getting in (which I am quite happy
about as I still Chair another fairly big committee and there is only so much
time in the day), but even being nominated is a pretty big deal.
There are 25
nominees for 8 spaces, and I am up against people who all have titles along the
lines of Managing Director, CEO, Co-Founder and Chairman – all of them for
representatives of huge local companies (including Google, LinkedIn and some
other very important local companies). The fact that I won’t get in doesn’t
really matter, but the fact that I was nominated has made me realise that I
really ought to be doing more with my time than just waiting until I can move
back to London again. I am not sure quite what steps to take next, but
hopefully there are some great new initiatives that I can start working on
within the industry soon. There’s nothing I love quite so much as a good CV building
project.
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