'I think it has to do with a lot of things. It starts from an early age where we see parents giving girls dolls and boys things like Legos.'
Netta’s career spans over ten years and three companies. The last five years have been spent at Wix, working as senior developer, team leader, and mentor. Her love of clean coding and TDD have helped her build microservices in Scala that run Wix Pro Gallery, Wix Photo Albums, and the brand new Wix Logo Maker. She has two wonderful kids, who don’t yet know how to code but enjoy a good pairing session.I guess I’ve always been into technology. It’s not something that I can really explain .
Even though I’ve always been a techie, I pretty much ignored and dismissed this calling until college. It was then that I took my first programming course, in hopes of getting into a program calledI took the course because I had to for this program, never even considering it would change the course of my life. When I finished this class I had fallen in love with programming and decided to go for a degree in Software Engineering instead.
Then if you find yourself drawn to computers, you are picking something that you are sort of an outsider in. You realize you are the only girl in class or one of the only girls in the class. You might look at other classes and realize all your friends are there having fun with each other while you are all alone. So this is also an issue. When you get older and we start having kids it becomes harder to juggle the life of a programmer with kids. We see many women drop out at that point as well.
And again, you find yourself the only woman in a room full of men. So this also causes some women to eventually leave the profession.Tips & tricks First of all go for it! Second I think being well informed of the gaps is very important. Be prepared for what you are walking into.
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