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Dame Stephanie Shirley - Breaking Gender Bias
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Dame Stephanie Shirley CH has written a speech specifically for Diversity Network in celebration of International Women's Day on the topic of breaking gender bias in the workplace, and glass ceilings everywhere!
Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley CH is a pioneering tech entrepreneur and founder of the autism charity Autistica. In 1962, Dame Stephanie created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers employed women to work on complex projects such as Concorde’s black box recorder from the comfort of their own home. Dame Stephanie empowered a generation of women in technology, giving them unheard of freedom to choose their own hours and manage their own workloads, working from home, and around children, on their own terms. The business thrived and she gradually transferred ownership to her staff, creating 70 millionaires in the process.
A keen advocate for gender equality and inclusion, we hope you enjoy listening to Dame Stephanie’s words of wisdom for us all today. Female empowerment in the workplace has come a long way in many companies since the 1960s, but as we know, equal pay and equal opportunity is still a long way off.. there remains much more to do!
Happy International Women's Day and Women's History Month - here's to gender equality everywhere - particularly at work!
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