It can be downright horrible to be a woman working in the tech industry these days. It's an industry that can't seem to cure itself of sexism.
Then again, it can be absolutely wonderful.
There's a huge push these days to encourage more girls to learn to code and to hire more women engineers once they graduate. The tech industry knows it can't fill all the jobs it has while discouraging half the population from joining the industry. It also knows that it can't do a good job of designing new tech products for women if women aren't part of the design process.
Because women are vastly outnumbered by men in technical jobs (about 3:1), they are even harder to find in leadership roles. But they do exist.
And once a year, we like to give a shout-out to these women.
No. 22: LinkedIn, Sarah Clatterbuck
Name: Sarah Clatterbuck
Job title: Senior manager, web development at LinkedIn
Why she's powerful: LinkedIn would be nothing without its website and Sarah Clatterbuck sets the technical standards for web development and leads several web development teams.
She's a big believer in Web Accessibility, too, making the web easier to use for people with disabilities and leads the company's task force on that. Clatterbuck is also a mentor for girls learning to code in the Bay Area.
No. 21: Box, Divya Jain
Name: Divya Jain
Job title: Staff data scientist and engineer lead at Box
Why she's powerful: Jain joined Box in 2013 when Box bought the technology behind dLoop, the company she cofounded. (Box is careful not to say that it acquired the whole company.) dLoop is a data analysis tool that helps enterprises discover information and insights.
Now she's leading a project that will help Box's customers search and analyze documents.
Jain previously held roles at EMC, Kazeon Systems (acquired by EMC), and was senior software engineer at Sun Microsystems. She holds a graduate degree in data mining and analysis from Stanford.
No. 20: Citrix, Ashi Sareen
Name: Ashi Sareen
Job title: Director of product development for the mobility team at Citrix
Why she's powerful: Citrix is a $3 billion company with 7,000 employees. Its flagship product helps enterprises run apps over the network on any device.
Ashi leads product development for the company's important mobility product called XenMobile. She runs a team of about 33 people, six managers, each of whom manages their own teams.
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