{"id":3513,"date":"2015-12-15T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T05:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2015-12-15T00:25:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T05:25:56","slug":"giving-thanks-to-a-female-tech-pioneer-youve-probably-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/giving-thanks-to-a-female-tech-pioneer-youve-probably-never-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks to a Female Tech Pioneer You&#8217;ve Probably Never Heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0MARY DEELSNYDER<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s much work to do when it comes to equality between the genders in the workplace. However, I like to think about how far we\u2019ve come, especially during this time of year, when\u00a0we tend to reflect on what we\u2019re grateful for. Working women before us had so many barriers to overcome and thanks to a few braves ones, I enjoy &#8212;\u00a0and sometimes take for granted &#8212;\u00a0the opportunities I have today.<\/p>\n<p>In the early &#8217;60s\u00a0in\u00a0Great Britain, a woman couldn\u2019t open a checking account without her husband\u2019s permission. Around the world, women couldn\u2019t go to work without the fear of sexual harassment on a regular basis. Have you seen <em>MadMen<\/em>? There were barriers, legal and social, preventing ambitious women from finding their place outside the home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were those women though, who\u00a0resisted and fought against these constraints. They had the guts and tenacity to stick it to the status quo and made real changes for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dame_stephanie_shirley_why_do_ambitious_women_have_flat_heads?language=en\" target=\"_blank\">Dame Stephanie Shirley<\/a> is one of them. Dame Stephanie is the most successful tech entrepreneur you\u2019ve never heard of. She founded a software development company in the United Kingdom\u00a0in 1962 with mainly women as employees. That was unheard of at the time. She also pioneered many of the modern workplace practices that we enjoy today. The two most important, in my opinion, being flexible work schedules and employee shareholder options.<\/p>\n<p>She started her company in her dining room with the mission to help women get jobs and to avoid misogyny in the workplace. The company was called Freelance Programmers, and many, if not all, of her employees worked from home. She believed that women could have a career and be mothers without compromising productivity. What Dame Stephanie discovered in the early &#8217;60s\u00a0was that her pioneering system\u00a0had a positive impact on the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Her company was ultimately valued at $3 billion. Among many projects, her team programmed Concorde\u2019s black box flight recorder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/253252\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0MARY DEELSNYDER &nbsp; There\u2019s much work to do when it comes to equality between the genders in the workplace. However, I like to think about how far we\u2019ve come, especially during this time of year, when\u00a0we tend to reflect on what we\u2019re grateful for. Working women before us had so many barriers to overcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice-from-the-best"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Giving Thanks to a Female Tech Pioneer You&#039;ve Probably Never Heard of - Biz Women Rock!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/giving-thanks-to-a-female-tech-pioneer-youve-probably-never-heard-of\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Giving Thanks to a Female Tech Pioneer You&#039;ve Probably Never Heard of - Biz Women Rock!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by:\u00a0MARY DEELSNYDER &nbsp; There\u2019s much work to do when it comes to equality between the genders in the workplace. 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