International Women's Day

Meteored US

Meteored celebrates Women's Day by interviewing four of its technicians.

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00:00 When you start to find a job,

00:03 there are some questions in the interviews

00:07 that make you feel like a woman.

00:09 You always have a boyfriend, you're going to have children.

00:17 I've always liked computers since I was a little girl.

00:20 I was always using my sister's computer.

00:23 So I thought about studying computer science.

00:26 And then, yes, the truth is that it was a decision that I liked.

00:29 When I started, I think that studying computer science was a bit of a novelty.

00:33 Because I think it was a little new degree.

00:36 We were few in class.

00:38 I remember small classrooms,

00:40 we were few women,

00:42 two or three, compared to maybe between classes of 20 or 30.

00:47 And when I finished, I saw the options there were,

00:52 and I saw that there were digital profiles,

00:54 and I went a little there.

00:56 But, well, because of other people's recommendations.

00:59 Because I didn't have a reference

01:02 of someone that I would have seen who had worked on that.

01:06 Well, to see as a female reference around me,

01:09 the truth is that no.

01:11 I liked math because of a teacher who had math at the institute,

01:15 who for me was a crack,

01:17 I really liked how he explained,

01:20 but women around me as a reference, no, I didn't have.

01:25 Yes, the digital world, back in the 90s,

01:29 was mostly, I always imagined myself as a boy,

01:33 I didn't have a female reference.

01:35 I didn't imagine a girl in front of a computer.

01:38 Now I do.

01:39 No, I've never had a female reference in computer science,

01:43 maybe because it's a more innovative, more emerging career lately,

01:53 but no, I've never had.

01:55 In France, at that time, Marie Curie was very much named as a scientific woman reference,

02:01 and the truth is that I admired her discoveries and her work a lot.

02:06 So, in the secretariat, when we went,

02:08 we always saw photos of her and her achievements,

02:11 so, just as consciously, she also played her role a little.

02:14 I think that over time,

02:19 there has been a stigma about the computer engineering profession,

02:25 and maybe this makes an unreal representation of the people who practice this profession.

02:31 So, I think it's important to motivate and make visible

02:35 that it's not just a stereotype, that there are different people.

02:39 Well, I can tell you that graphic design has always been a male profession,

02:45 but since about 20 years ago, or so, it has been reversed,

02:52 and in fact, my promotion, I think it was around 60% women over men,

02:59 which was not the case before.

03:02 (music)

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