Meteored celebrates Women's Day by interviewing four of its technicians.
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00:00 When you start to find a job,
00:03 there are some questions in the interviews
00:07 that make you feel like a woman.
00:09 You always have a boyfriend, you're going to have children.
00:17 I've always liked computers since I was a little girl.
00:20 I was always using my sister's computer.
00:23 So I thought about studying computer science.
00:26 And then, yes, the truth is that it was a decision that I liked.
00:29 When I started, I think that studying computer science was a bit of a novelty.
00:33 Because I think it was a little new degree.
00:36 We were few in class.
00:38 I remember small classrooms,
00:40 we were few women,
00:42 two or three, compared to maybe between classes of 20 or 30.
00:47 And when I finished, I saw the options there were,
00:52 and I saw that there were digital profiles,
00:54 and I went a little there.
00:56 But, well, because of other people's recommendations.
00:59 Because I didn't have a reference
01:02 of someone that I would have seen who had worked on that.
01:06 Well, to see as a female reference around me,
01:09 the truth is that no.
01:11 I liked math because of a teacher who had math at the institute,
01:15 who for me was a crack,
01:17 I really liked how he explained,
01:20 but women around me as a reference, no, I didn't have.
01:25 Yes, the digital world, back in the 90s,
01:29 was mostly, I always imagined myself as a boy,
01:33 I didn't have a female reference.
01:35 I didn't imagine a girl in front of a computer.
01:38 Now I do.
01:39 No, I've never had a female reference in computer science,
01:43 maybe because it's a more innovative, more emerging career lately,
01:53 but no, I've never had.
01:55 In France, at that time, Marie Curie was very much named as a scientific woman reference,
02:01 and the truth is that I admired her discoveries and her work a lot.
02:06 So, in the secretariat, when we went,
02:08 we always saw photos of her and her achievements,
02:11 so, just as consciously, she also played her role a little.
02:14 I think that over time,
02:19 there has been a stigma about the computer engineering profession,
02:25 and maybe this makes an unreal representation of the people who practice this profession.
02:31 So, I think it's important to motivate and make visible
02:35 that it's not just a stereotype, that there are different people.
02:39 Well, I can tell you that graphic design has always been a male profession,
02:45 but since about 20 years ago, or so, it has been reversed,
02:52 and in fact, my promotion, I think it was around 60% women over men,
02:59 which was not the case before.
03:02 (music)