Don't understate the importance of women role models in tech leadership

Women must be in on technology because we need to keep building the things that work for us

Last week, I attended a women-in-tech event, the kind for a general audience. It’s refreshing to hear women talking about big innovations, like the engineer at Scania who is head of hybrid and electrified powertrain projects. It was similarly nice to hear talks from women working in virtual reality, and at least acknowledging that with a market that is mostly made up by men, men are still setting the agenda – but it ...