Django Girls empowers women

This blog post was written by Olga Pinheiro Garcia. Thank you, Olga :)

My name is  Olga Pinheiro Garcia. I am twenty-seven years old. I live in Recife, Brasil.

After attending Django Girls workshop, I started to study Web Development on my own. I am also developing my personal website. I am learning about Linux operating system as well. I am not yet working as a developer but I intend to as soon as possible!

The workshop organizers helped me making contact with people who have similar professional paths and interests to mine, and I hope that will help in guiding me so that I can start working as a programmer. I love the tech field and the workshop has stimulated and energized me, even more, to go after my goals. It was awesome!

Also, it became clearer to me how many women have interest in the tech field and how they feel unable or di-stimulated to go after this interest because of the predominance of men in the area. I believe this kind of work, like the one done by Django Girls, is super important to empower women and, little by little, change the world. I have loved taking part of something so amazing.

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