History of Girls Kode
By: Girls Kode
Tags: Career, Skills, Digital, Girlskode, Technology

These days, almost everything can be solved through clicks anytime and anywhere. Technology and digital growing faster and more intense than ever. Data says, by January 2020, more than half of the world’s population using the internet and there are 3.80 billion social media users in January 2020. This gives an insight into how big is the technology and digital world right now. But unfortunately, there are still not enough women in the industry.

History of Girls Kode

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There are not enough women in tech

Rina, the founder of Girls Kode, heard from many tech company head hunters from many tech conferences that programmer women are rare. Some reason why there aren’t many women in technology industries is:

Bias of gender

Some people in the industry do underestimate women, even though women have skills and competences.

Role Model

There are a few numbers of successful women in the Technology and Digital world for a role model.

Academic support

Most universities and academy curriculum for technology is not relevant to the industry need’s

Positive support system

There are still a few support systems to support and improve skills and knowledge.

Another course after graduated

Have you ever feel the need to take another course to keep you updated with the jobs?

Like how many youths in big cities that worked in the technology industry, Rina Kusmalasari, the founder of GirlsKode, finds many obstacles that many people may face: many hard-skill needed in the industry isn’t taught at school, one of them is coding. So, she needs to take another course to enrich her skills, unfortunately, that cost more bucks. Right at this moment, the idea sparks. Next, she and her friends initiate to build a tech women community where women can learn the technology and digital world from inspirational speakers. That was moment, Rina with her friend Laurenza Claudia which really loves about Digital and that is what she doing for her job. Finally, Rina and Lauren start with a lot of discussion and preparation so they ask their good friends Adit (from creative) and Naufal (from Tech) to create Girls Kode.

Girls Kode concern in college student and workers (youth ages)

Girls Kode members vary from IT and digital workers to fresh graduates and students. To enrich members’ knowledge and preparations, Girls Kode invites great people that work in the technology industry as speakers. They share insight about the working environment and needed skills for the community members. Most of them are big company worker or branded StartUp founder. Besides that, as a community, the members have freedom to ask and give their insight in technology and digital problems.

By holds classes, seminars, and discussions, Girls Kode’s focus not only on the members’ career development but also to improve members’ skills in technology and the digital world.

Girls Kode community as a support system!

Girls Kode community formed to help solve the problems every woman faced in their career.

How Girls Kode try to solve the challenges.

Everyone is welcome!

Let’s join the movement through linktr.ee/girlskode

Written by Esa Difny