Rūta Užpalytė


INTRODUCTION

My thesis of the research is as following "Female students are as good at engineering as male ones" and I am going to investigate how literature reflects certain aspects of the issue.

Even in today's society many women are being unrecognized for their talent, just because of their gender, especially if their "specialities" or professions are considered "male ones". Although their contributions are sometimes unrecognized, women with a little ingenuity have always had the power to do great things. Thus, I will present you some of which have concurred the world with their inventions, statistics and knowledge, in hopes of making other women fight even further for their own rights and in helping to solve the disrespectful and unreasonable difference in salaries for men and woman.

Take a look at a few of these profiles of amazing women, to see how they made a difference in their world and to prove that intelligence and great deeds lie everywhere, not only in men.

KEY TERMS

Computing - The process of utilizing computer technology to complete a task
Executive - Person or group appointed and given the responsibility to manage the affairs of an organization and the authority to make decisions within specified boundaries.
Substance - that of which a thing consists; physical matter of material.
Entrepreneur - Someone who exercises initiative by organizing a venture to take benefit of an opportunity
Contributions - Imposed or required payment
Shepherd - a person who protects, guides, or watches over a person or group of people.

SUMMARY

1. A known female engineer: Google's Diane Greene

Diane Greene has been a powerful engineer and tech entrepreneur for decades, but in 2015 she burst onto the scene in an even bigger way. That is because Google bought her stealth startup in order to hire her to run its cloud-computing business.
She has been on board with Google since it bought her company for $380 million, so she and her husband donated $150 million to charity.
At Google, Greene is leading a new engineering team that combines all of the company's cloud business.

2. Bohemia's Interactive Simulations: Eva Saravia

Eva Saravia is vice president of global programs at Bohemia's Interactive Simulations, a company that helps train military forces worldwide through simulation programs.
BIS's simulation software is like a video game, only it is not about pretending to "kill zombies", but to training real soldiers to face real combat situations.
Saravia came to BIS from Northtop Grumman and is the companies only female senior executive.

3. Intel's: Sumita Basu

Sumia Basu is a strategist and technical assistant to the Intel general manager running the technical group for client computing.
For her PhD, she did experiments with the International Space Station.
One of the Basu's most impressive accomplishments is that she invented the worlds first lead-free patterning process, by doing so - limiting the use of toxic substance in its manufacturing process.

4. Microsoft's: Peggy Johnsson

Peggy Johnsons is executive vice president of business development at Microsoft.
Johnson helped Microsoft in new shepherding partnerships with Salesforce, Dropbox,Uber and Yahoo.
She's also been named to the companies 12 person senior-leadership comitee.

Last but not least, according to statistics,enabling women to meen their full potential in work could add as much as $28 trillion.

All in all, from my point of view, I think that diversity is really important. It is shown, that companies are 15% more likely to perform better if they are gender diverse. Thus, it would be time to move forward from labeling "men's" and "women's" jobs and just start to enjoy each other's company with respect.