Now or Never

“The very first challenge we’ve had to tackle was getting women to realise that coding, or even joining the tech industry itself, was a viable career option they could take for themselves,” says Purnima Wijendra, the co-founder and technical director of TechSprint Academy, Malaysia’s very first all-women coding school. “Because in Malaysia, the concept of women participating in supposedly male-dominated industries is still foreign to most of us—not just for those residing in rural areas, but for those in urban ones as well.”

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