Technically Women

I chose to write about Marissa Mayer for Ada Lovelace day 2010.

I have always defined myself as a girl geek, but also a person who enjoys fashion, make up, shoes, bags and everything else which somehow by definition don’t really fit into the tech world which is dominated by suits and ties.

Then Marissa Mayer crossed my path. (virtually, not physically) Woah!
It was such an inspiration to see other women who had managed to find the balance between being female and working in the tech-industry. Not only working, but rocking it.

Here was a woman who could code, she wrote the code that enabled 18,000 Google employees to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on its opening night, but who at the same time got featured in Vogue for her sense of fashion.

I would like to use this space to thank her for showing other girls in the industry that it is possible to code and wear dresses and 5 inch heels without having to feel inferior. Like my fellow TechWoman Susan Scrupski writes in her Ada Lovelace post, to thank her for what she has done to encourage me, and hopefully others too, to express our femininity.

You can follow her on twitter too.