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for a woman to succeed in the technology field and competence, that since being hired in (insert month and refine into our tech practice as the core prin-
she shared that proving one’s mettle in the arena and year), her immersion in Paranaque’s production ciple of continuous development. “When even the
has very little to do with gender. According to her, shop-floor has deepened exponentially. smallest aspect of our work impacts the main-

“It’s about the ability of a person, man or woman, to stream, our contribution becomes immeasurable.
Women of Disruption adapt to any given situation.” Studies suggest that gender dynamics contribute Those who are brave enough to explore outside
to an organization’s innovation practice. Leveraging
By Anna Junette Bax As the go-to person for enterprise technology inclusivity, therefore, creates a positive synergy their comfort zone will find that the rewards are
worth the long haul.”
projects, Grace handles a team of two female that inevitably results to a company’s increase in
It is true: Women have been making waves in tech-
and six male developers. “It’s all about converting bottom line. Besides enjoying a healthy career since joining
nology since Charles Babbage came up with the
your strengths in each area of your life to lessen SCOPE as (insert position) ten years ago, at 47
Analytical Engine, thereby “fathering” the computer; Since the integration of SPi Global’s Technology
the challenges in others. Being in the tech field years old she is the mother of three children and
and his female associate mathematician Ada Lovelace teams with SCOPE’s in 2018, more powerful tools
has made me more equipped for success in my wife to (insert husband’s line of work.)
became the first programmer in the history of com- have been developed at a faster pace. Likewise, the
personal life, too.” A doting wife and moth-
puting. Through the ages, however, the role that Lady potentials of existing platforms and solutions in Open access to the internet (which was also es-
er, she also takes on volunteer duties as one of
Lovelace – the only legitimate child to the infamous serving bigger and more exacting markets have poused by a woman in the Obama administration)
Parañaque’s CSR Champions.
romantic poet Lord Byron - played in shaping today’s come to our purview. has seen the debate on equality to become more
technology has often been overlooked, like those of Certainly, in tech, towering skills on paper can easily gritty and granular. But popularized issues such as
Viswapriya (need full name), AVP for Technology
other great women whose contributions to the tech be scratched off when one is unable to keep up with equal representation, diversity, and discrimination
Solutions at SCOPE is the expert on AcQuire, a robust
industry are as exemplary as their male counterparts. developers and professionals who have the advan- become moot when true equality, which leads to
web-scraping and crawling technology considered to
tage of experience. “I’ve heard people say, ‘fake it better opportunities and outcome for the greater
Many had claimed (some of them, men) that women be one of the hottest tools in SPi Global’s roster of
‘til you make it’; but with work at SPi Global, either good, is at the top of an organization’s hierarchy
have been marginalized due to societal biases and logos today. “The response to Acquire has been very
I learn to process information fast, or I get left be- of values. Indeed, SPi Global at 40 years puts this
stereotypes in the workplace. Success barriers, like favorable and I’m really happy that usage has picked-
hind,” inferred Jalyn Llamena, Business Analyst for occasional feminist at liberty to babble on about
the confidence gap and the meta-challenge, have up by (insert percentage) during the past year,”
the TechSol team. our women in technology. Ergo, history may be
given rise to global feminist movements that tackle she remarked. evidence; its interpretation, however, is according to
women’s plight on equality. Because some processes are more complex than the our collective’s conscious - and unconscious -
Despite global statistics indicating that India produces
others, the 27-year old tech professional believes
At SPi Global, there’s only a handful of women in the the highest number of female representation in the evolvement.
that technical caliber and the ability to think criti-
technology teams, which is perfectly natural given tech field year-on-year, among Priya’s 45-member
cally and analytically are qualities advantageous in
that the larger social construct affects our micro- team of developers and technologists, only three are
her line of work. “In our role, we should be able to
cosm. From experience, though, our “women in tech” women. “SPi Global’s focus areas are highly special-
understand linear and non-linear problems,” she
are neither unsung nor marginalized.Their work can ized,” she noted. “Micro-niches continue to emerge,
said. “The team develops solutions depending on
be felt across the organization and had earned them and the prospect of more women breaking into the
our understanding of issues in production, from the
respect from peers and praise from managers and tech industry steadily increases as well.”
glaring to the most minor ones.”
colleagues.
Now is a really good time to be creative and innova-
Highly organized and quick on the uptake, her pro-
I asked Grace Nono, Manager for IT-Corporate tive. We can channel our natural instinct to nurture
cess documentations and illustrations mirror her
Solutions Development Group (CSDG), what it takes

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