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Non-Profits in Technology What does Women-in-Tech do as an organisation and what is your specific focus?
Women-in-Tech (WIT) is a global non-forprofit organisation established four and a half years ago by the CEO, Aoki. She is based in Paris and started it with this mission of empowering women and girls, and frustrated after decades of campaigning to get more women in
technology, the gap wasn’t actually getting any smaller, the gender inequality gap was in fact increasing. It’s still increasing regardless of all the work that’s being done. And so it’s actually saying, hang on, what? How can we do it differently? How can we make it accountable? How can we take action, drive, change, not just talk about this problem? Because a lot of things are being said in summits and events and there’s
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