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The world of technology is dynamic, ever-evolving, and brimming with opportunities. Yet, the tech industry has long struggled with gender disparity. Women make up nearly half of the global workforce but are still underrepresented in tech roles. Enter...

As weird as it seems since I became a software engineer less than a year ago, the first lines of code I’ve ever written were in the year 1994. I was a freshman in a high school in São Paulo, Brazil, and they had a “technical program” to teach an occu...

By Niamh McCooey Around this time last year I started learning the basics of code in my spare time, and sure enough found myself working as a professional developer just 7 months later – with no CS degree, no bootcamp, and no clue. So if you’re readi...

On this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with developer and wearer of many hats Princiya about how she changed careers, moved to Berlin, and worked her way up to a lead role. Princiya grew up in India and studied computer scien...

By Judy Gichoya, MD My first year of medical school was in 2003, a time when caring for HIV/AIDS patients was difficult due to lack of antiretrovirals (ARVs). Now as every medical student knows, the excitement of getting to the clinical rotations is ...

By Michelle Glauser Last summer, my spouse’s coworker was featured in an engineer recruitment ad campaign in San Francisco’s BART stations. Many people responded that she didn’t “look like” an engineer. Unfortunately, this is something that people wh...
