 I attended the PHP conference last year, so I was there for like 15 minutes, what is it? A highlight talk, like a fast talk, something. So I'm here, I'm also leading our community group, which is the PHP Women Asia. So I'm here because it's Women's Month. So last month, we just celebrated International Women's Day. So if you can see in Facebook, there's like, there's a lot of posts about women, like more boldly changed or something. So, yeah, so our theme is called Be Bold for Change. Yeah, so just a highlight. So this is the PHP Women Asia. So we've done a lot of like activities and meet-ups. And we, our biggest meet-up was in the PHP conference as well. So we kind of meet all the, like the speaker, the, I forgot her name. You're sorry, you're just recorded. Okay, yeah, and, and also in the WordPress event, we also have like mini meet-ups there and, yeah, it's quite fun. And our first workshop was held last year as well in October. So it is, I mean, the title is Build a Website with WordPress. It's free for, for everyone. It's not only for girls, but also for both male and female. So it's a whole day event. We had 31 participants. It's sponsored by Microsoft and we have eight to ten volunteers, which is from the PHP user group and the WordPress group. Yeah, and we also, like after the workshop, right, we just requested a survey. So was the workshop useful? And then the 100% said yes. So it's quite like make us very happy. Like, yeah, it was there and then the girls there are there. And we can like teach them like how to use WordPress. And, I mean, we use themes and, but it's good. Like the, especially there's an old lady, like Auntie there. She was so good. And yeah, it was quite good. And I think we, we still going to do it more. So International Women's Day, be both for change. So as for like our community, right, I'll just make a post, like I published a post about, about female PHP developers, which I highlight most of the PHP developers that I know personally and in Asia. So I'll just, so Brita, she's there, so hi. So I just like feature them in my, in my post, like about, about what do they do and what do they think about being a woman working in a team which is a male dominant. And more is, nor as Lisa is, she's from Malaysia. And Cherry, she's the PHP user group in the Philippines. The president of the PHP user group in the Philippines. And she's a database administrator. Next, Vanessa, she's there. She's a system analyst in, in, in US. And she's working here. Jay, she is from Johnson & Johnson. She's a regional service manager in digital. Yeah. And Tracy, she's the senior software engineer in ISO. So I just feature six of them, which just to encourage more women to be, to take, to be a web developer. Yeah. So women in dev, I don't know what to say. Okay, so until now women are still facing barriers. I mean, in our place, like pay gap, gender bias, shorted of women role models, among other things. And yes, that includes women tech. Like now in the room, how many women are here? So, yeah. So I think it's just started when we were still young. So we have two coloring books here. So one is the beautiful girls coloring book. And the other one is brilliant coloring, real boys for coloring book. So you can already tell, right, that all the nonsense stuff will be for girls and then all those awesome stuff for boys. So yeah, and then it's, I mean, maybe like for all the majority of the girls here, we don't really like doing dress-up when we're still young. We like those Lego, we also want to play those. So I think it's still started when we're still young. And yeah, so, one of the issues that we encountered, but maybe not for everyone, because Singapore is quite good in terms of female developers in the workplace. But for the worldwide, there's always a gender bias. Like female voices are perceived as less logical and less persuasive than male voices. I don't know, maybe because we're emotional and sometimes our decision, sometimes mixed with emotion, or maybe because we're not technical enough of our terms or just because we're a woman, we're like, oh, you can do this. Oh, my computer's broken and you help me. So it's like that. And women are perceived negatively for being too assertive. So we're quite shy in terms of like decision-making, like for example, for me, for example, for me. So at first, maybe in my first and second year at work, they don't really want to hear my voice. Like they don't want to hear like my, what do you call this? My input. So I think they think that I've used less than inputs because yeah, I'm a woman. But I think for us, right, we have to make a double effort to do it. Like you have to prove that yeah, this is good and that I have a backup. This is what they guys do. I mean, hey, can you support me? You have to do that right. It's not, we have to make a double effort for it. And then another one is women in tech is just a pipeline problem. So because we might slow and because we're, okay, we're just good in coding, but we cannot do the migration or the deployment or some like web app stuff. So yeah. So another one is the gender pay gap. So as you can see, being a computer programmer, we have like page gap, like 28.3%. So I kind of, okay, recently last week in the International Women's Day, there's a lot of like women in tech posts that really highlight the gender pay. So I don't know in Singapore, but this is like a worldwide infographics that computer programmer women are not being paid the same exactly or not the same as the male. So I'm not sure why, maybe you know why it's your male. Yeah, so that's the issue here. So currently there are like 39.5% web developers or female web developers. So I think it's progressing like almost there. So yeah, it's not a lot compared to maybe 10 years ago. And okay, so why am I here? What am I talking about women dev? Like why can't we just let men do the development stuff? So there are the least items that I think that why is, I mean, I think also in the world and some people say that why is it important to have a woman in software development? So by 2020, there will be 20 million jobs will be created worldwide for under computer and mathematical and architecture engineering related fields. So that's quite a lot. So it will be increasing. Right now we can see, right, that there's a lot of jobs building like data science, artificial intelligence, what else, digital marketing. So it's getting, it's getting increasing. All the positions in IT are increasing. So we also need women, yeah. And research shows that diversity leads to better decision, creativity, performance and innovations. I have a friend like working, you know, the assassin grade, I forgot the company's name. So one of the programmer I talked to him. So I told like, oh, do you have like female programmers there? And then she told me, yeah, we have like, like she said, like from Japan, like she really contributed a lot. So we're talking about assassin grade game. It's like for male, but her contribution, her contribution is a lot in that game. So that's a good indication that really justify this paragraph. And then next is allow organizations to better cater to a variety of clients. So, yeah, not all, I mean, I understand it. I'm not saying anything. Okay, and then diverse minds drive innovation. So it's got to be the same. Again, next is what can you help? Okay, so make your environment inclusive. Not straight, typically geeky, expecting all male environment. So I'm not sure in Singapore if they have one here, but I know a few of like in the company, maybe in like in the Philippines or in Vietnam, like the office is mostly like, there are like computer games or basketballs that, I mean, yeah, there are some females also played it, but not really all. So maybe there's some, yeah, maybe you need to need to also think for goals. Mentorship, providing professional guidance. So, I mean, yeah, so mentoring, like what, I mean, Singapore is very good at this. Like example, like we have a woman in code, community group, tech ladies, that also men also help in mentoring the girls. And that's quite good. I don't see that, I mean, some complain that, why is it like men, this is a tech ladies community and why is it men, yeah, are there? But I think I really appreciate that. Yeah, you should not always think because this is a female community, it's always female. You should always think like for everyone. And then sponsorship, so advocating for women from a position of authority. And then be good ally to women. So you understand why they are afraid, for example, to talk here, to talk, to showcase, to present what they did and encourage them to why, okay, you like programming, you like to be in tech, encourage them rather than discouraging them. Yeah, and get rid of technological powerlessness. So this example will be like, example, I'm a computer science student and I have a problem here and then you're a male, then I ask you, can you help me? The tendency is most men will just get the laptop, fix it, and then like, here you go, it's done. So I think what should be needed here is like, okay, what is the problem? So you sit down with her, like, what is the problem? You let her do, let her solve the problem and then so that she can understand and how to solve it and it will make her a better developer. So, that's it. Oh, okay, so I'm almost done. So this is a nice quote that I read last week. This is very, very good. She's from Jens Nielsen. She's a co-founder, we do big ideas and she's a web development instructor in General Assembly in Hong Kong. So the revolution in digital, it will happen in the coming 10 years, I'm mind blowing. So like I said earlier, I encourage women to join this revolution. It's my impression that some women resist digital out of fear of digital world being called in logic. Nothing is further from the truth. The digital world is the most creative industry by far. Finding solution and solving problem is a very creative process. We need women to help build a future. So, yeah. And of course, because SPH is the sponsor of this event, so I have to put it, no, no, but actually I really like this quote as well. So getting women on the board is not really about diversity of gender, but diversity of views. So, yeah, she's Tan Yan Yan from SAS board of director from SPH. Okay, so I wanna be a PHP woman at Asia Voluntary. So again, we're not really limited to female only. So we want also males to also contribute, like pay it forward. So we want instructors like you guys, awesome guys, awesome developers, contribute ideas. How can we, I mean, be very creative on how to make this happen, to have, for the mentorship, for the sponsorship. So, yeah, here below the two items. So, I mean, we had an workshop last year and it's also effective and we want also another one, which is maybe more on the intermediate level. So maybe we have those women who have already knowledge on coding because there's, yeah, all have this beginning, what do you call it, experience. Maybe we want to help them upgrade to intermediate. Yeah, so maybe any of you guys would like to contribute. And oh, no, okay, that's all. Thank you. 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