The power of technology in the hands of young women who want to make the world a better place.
Chicas en Tecnología works to reduce the gender gap in technology and encourage young women across the country to be creators of technological solutions with social impact. Since 2015, girls who participate in the organization's programs and initiatives have been trained in skills such as leadership, communication, teamwork, programming, thinking [...]
International Women's Day: the technology ecosystem as a space for inclusion
#8M is an opportunity to make visible the importance of women's participation in the technological entrepreneurial environment. In order to reduce the existing gender gaps in this ecosystem, it is necessary to generate a systemic change that creates equal opportunities. Chicas en Tecnología shares some proposals so that you can be part of the transformation. Did you know [...]
Argentine geology: women scientists in the lab and in the field
Science can prevent populations from being exposed to natural impacts such as floods, landslides and volcanic eruptions. Aixa Rodríguez, with her hands in the soil of San Juan, explains how they work to achieve this. Argentina's science has great women working on projects with social impact as protagonists. From all over the country they are leading [...]
#CompilatónCET: collaborative work to bridge the gender gap
Chicas en Tecnología and Mulesoft called for the creation of an online repository with free and open access information on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and gender issues. Cultural and systemic changes are processes that are built through the collective work of multiple actors involved with a mission. Chicas en Tecnología knows how to [...]
A day in your future, the second edition of Chicas Líderes en Tecnología
Chicas en Tecnología organized a day of participative activities so that young women could discover a professional path, academic training and personal development through technology. Saturday noon was rainy and cold, in the capital city of Buenos Aires the lights were defending themselves from the gray day. First in trickles and later in [...]
Educators: agents of change in their local communities
A morning of work and exchange brought together middle school teachers with proposals for innovation in teaching and learning experiences. In order to highlight the strategic place of educators, Chicas en Tecnología and Fundación YPF organized the conference “Ingenias en la escuela”, which brought together middle school teachers from the areas of [...]
The future of work and its challenges
What are the skills needed to address the challenges of the future of work with a focus on diversity and inclusion? Technical or soft skills? Programming languages or creative professionals? The dilemmas of the future of work raise questions about what characteristics women leaders in the entrepreneurial technology field should have, and Chicas en Tecnología seeks to answer them in a [...]
Cordoba, a province allied to close the gender gap in science and technology
Chicas en Tecnología works to create a sustainable ecosystem in which the next generation of women leaders in science and technology can develop. To achieve this goal it is necessary that different actors contribute efforts that reach the entire country and region. For this reason, the NGO is working with strategic allies to build [...]
Data and experiences to break down barriers
Girls in Technology presented a research together with INTAL-IDB that makes fundamental contributions to close the gender gap in academic and professional careers in Science and Technology. Text: Julieta La Casa Existing data communicate, inform, reveal, confirm and refute. The data that does not exist also communicates something: the lack of interest [...]
+Schools | Open Leaders 6
+Escuelas is a project that seeks to include mobile technology to prevent early school dropout, and help teenagers finish high school with tools to get organized and not lose the school rhythm. Sofía and María Eugenia Romero together with their mentor in the seventh edition of the program Programando un Mundo Mejor (Programming a Better World), from [...]