Wishful thinking
Gillian Keating, the brains behind the I Wish initiative, wants secondary schoolgirls to broaden their career horizons into the tech sphere and gravitate toward Stem subjects
When Gillian Keating began her stint as president of Cork Chamber of Commerce five years ago, she was expecting it to be a year of discovery – a “great opportunity to lift my head out of my own desk and look around me”, as she puts it.
What she didn’t expect was to end up co-founding a hugely successful initiative designed to encourage girls in secondary school to study Stem subjects, and to ...