Women who inspire you

On 8th March was International Womens Day. To celebrate this, the Women In Tech Birmingham group arranged a meetup and asked for volunteers to give a lightning talk about an inspirational woman. The person could be a friend or relative, or a celebrity, or it could be someone fictional.

Is there someone who inspires you?

I chose to talk about the characters from the movie Legally Blonde. You can read about the evening here:

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For me @rosie inspires me as someone who managed to build the company I now work with while also having a family. It’s proof that it is possible, not easy but possible. She also helped me when I was a struggling new tester, helped me to get a budget to attend my first ever conference and from there, make contacts that have become friends and find mentors to help me on my journey.

There are a tonne of women who are inspirational to me and who I look up to for different reasons but I don’t want to hog the thread :grin:

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I’d put Grace Hopper up there as an inspirational woman, apart from bringing the term ā€œdebuggingā€ into computing, she also came up with the great line ā€œIt is sometimes easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permissionā€ :smiling_imp:

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