Just 1.5% of computing occupations in the country are filled by Latinas, a startling Bureau of Labor Statistics number that illustrates the importance of pushing Latinas into the tech space.
There are a variety of different ways to promote and encourage Latinas into the tech space, and Becky Arreaga, president of Mercury Mambo, and Rebecca Gonzales, assistant director of Avindé, discussed several during their panel Friday, “Chicapreneurs: Latinas in Technology.”
More Latinas than ever are graduating from college, and this is changing the dynamics of entrepreneurship, said Arreaga. In a sense, entrepreneurship is engrained in Latinas — “How many of our moms were the Avon ladies of the neighborhood?” she asked — but the bigger question is figuring out how to harness that passion and those skills in a more formal way.
After all, she said, 1 in 10 women-owned businesses are owned by a Latina. READ MORE
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