On September 2021, Asime and Pontevedra's Council presented the Tecnolóxicas project, an initiative created for promoting women's roles in the technology sector.
It’s a unique and innovating project on industry and corporate standards that answers to the current necessities of women’s integration in the job market.
According to Enrique Mallón, General Director of Asime, "For the first time, we’re going to generate a real change that will unite the authentic needs of the companies with women’s training in a way where a real insertion into the technologic labour pool is being produced."
Lorena Rosende, spokesperson of the association, Itera Group’s CEO and developer of this business endeavour, explained that "We're always left on the surface: a meeting, an engineer shares her experience of her time at school... But we always lacked that extra step of commitment from all the stakeholders. But now, we’re going to take on staff, and we’re going to create real female technological references and we are going to place Galicia at the forefront in the fight against the gender gap, we also shall support a culture based on talents that won’t look sideways at women’s opinions."
As well, Pontevedra’s Council president, Carmela Silva, was enthusiastic about the project that she deemed as something "very powerful" and exclaimed again her concern for the scarce enrolment of women in technical courses and degrees, as well as the low rates of labour insertion when it comes to feminine professionals in the technological sector (It’s only 27.5% at present-day).
Training, creation of feminine role models and support of projects developed by women.
This project consists of 3 pillars. First of all, we expect that 100+ women shall receive specific training according to Tecnolóxicas’ project, so they’re able to do paid internships for 6 months minimum. Participants will also be mentored and accompanied in their professional course.
Secondly, there will be a promoter to impulse technological projects focused on the female market.
Last (but not least), the project will contribute to making local feminine role models so other women may also feel identified, as they are part of the same community, or they are CEOs in their city's companies, they have a common acquaintance, etc.
