Photo: Tech Entrepreneurship Training 2019
Tech Training influence young people’s career aspirations, career choice, and attitudes towards job creation and helps fight self-imposed stereotypes, especially young women.
Creating opportunity for young women in the tech world is very necessary. In Tamale, low income young women have many reasons for seeking training that leads to a job, and many factors including pressure on their time due to household responsibilities and a lack of information can deter their enrollment to tech programmes. Young women want to feel they are investing their limited time in a way that allows them to reach their individual goals.
In Tamale, we had several occasions where young women were interested in pursuing a career in coding and other related digital solutions, but her spouse and family members forbade them.
They based those decisions on a perception of these trades as “men’s work” and that a job would take away from the woman’s household work. In the effort to mitigate this lack of support, Samakose began talking to family members one on one to orientate them and share more information about the technology programmes and ease anxieties, raise awareness about the economic gains of working in this digital sector and having an additional breadwinner in the household, and highlight past female participant success stories to show how women can thrive in these industry.
Given these challenges, tech training programmes can play a key role in helping young women get jobs. Tech training typically includes development of technical skills, entrepreneurship skills, and business skills. Ideally, tech training is demand-oriented and builds key skills tailored to prospective employers' needs and self-employment.
Other tech training programmes helps helps build a wide set of soft skills, such as team building, and communication, which they can use in a variety of jobs. While soft skills may complement demand-oriented training, research demonstrates that the success of tech training depends primarily on programmes' ability to target and help young women develop the actual technical and business skills needed by employers and self-employment.
Comentarios