Oracle Magazine, May/June 2018
IN THE FIELD ORACLE MAGAZINE MAY JUNE 2018 106 ference I meet 5 to 10 new people who are going to be able to help me in my job or Im going to be able to help them But I do think thats something that happens organically and it would be great to see a more formal opportunity for mentorship Oracle Magazine Is one of your objectives to bring more women and more minorities into the technology area and do you see that happening Hipp My personal observation has been that although we have a number of women in technology they arent necessarily in positions of leadership I think it is essential to have women at all levels of the tech industry Programs such as OAUGs Emerging Leaders and Collegiate Forum can help attract more women and minorities into tech positions Any activity where we are reaching out we being the senior women or experienced professionals to this next generation and talking to them about the opportunities is going to have a positive effect Obviously if theyre studying computer science we want to tell them how that translates into a realworld job and we want those jobs to be available for everyone including women and minorities Ive been thinking recently about what the critical factor is for attracting more women and minorities into tech positions And I think from my experience leading at a STEM conference for fifththrough eighth grade girls it is to engage them while they are young Just the pure interest and lack of barriers that exist at those young ages allow them to believe that they could be interested in computer Im a firm believer in the idea of a diversified team whether its age gender or ethnicity The more diversity you have on your team the better your product Christine Hipp President Oracle Applications User Group
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