Breaking the Glass Ceiling 100 Women

for the 100 Women season -

Breaking the Glass Ceiling.

We are challenging teams of women in

four locations around the world.

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everyday problems that their wives

face.

In the workplace. We need a

working protocol by tomorrow

morning.

In education. It is small

but functional, the Origi isn't

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And on the sports field.

Using BBC outlets, the teams can

appeal for help from around the

world.

They have just one week to

find a modern solution to a

long-standing issue.

Welcome to the

first-ever BBC 100 Women 2017.

Silicon Valley in northern

California in the United States is

home to some of the most famous

companies in the world. The jokes

here are well-paid, in high demand,

and highly demanding. And more

recently the issue of who is filling

those jobs, especially at a senior

level, is proving to be extremely

contentious. The San Andreas fault

line runs right through the region.

It isn't the only flaw in the area.

Not too far from here in Silicon

Valley, there is growing concern

about the gender gap around the

boardroom tables in the tech

industry.

Ladies all across the

world, listen up.

We have pulled

together a team of courageous women

prepared to tackle the gender

divide. It is in the biggest issue

facing the tech industry right now,

it is a broader problem across the

working world too.

Representing all

the women.

Salute. Here is what they

are up against. In Silicon Valley,

just one in ten senior positions are

held by women. A recent survey of

the world 's tech powerhouse found

that 60% have faced unwanted sexual

advances. 65% felt left out from

social events because they were a

woman. And 84% have been told they

were too aggressive. Ultimately,

women end up quitting tech jobs that

more than double the rate of men.

Let's meet our core team of four

women, all working in the Bay area.

Reuter is a design strategist at JP

Morgan Chase. She likes to collide

the digital and the physical world.

Once we have these women in the

workplace, how to accommodate an

environment that is suitable and is

inviting?

Roman is a scene in

manager in a tea and advises

companies of ethical use of AI.

I

systematically seem a female

students be offered lift the core

roles or being told they are not a

good culture fit.

Natalia came to

computer science late. She found

herself on an engineering course and

is now software engineer who loves

coding.

It is already a minefield

working in the industry is that we

have to work harder. Anyone who

isn't part of the dominant culture

has to work so much harder.

And

lorry he was an academic and gender

research at Stanford University.

Even people who are on board may

still be implicitly or unconsciously

disadvantage in women.

OK, ladies.

It is time to reveal what your

challenge is. You have five days to

find out what is holding women back

from the boardroom in the tech

industry and then come up with a

solution that could improve the

situation for them and you must

reveal your ideas to a group of your

peers at the end of this week.

Let's

do it!

To help our team get an even

deeper understanding of what women

working in Silicon Valley are up

against, we're introducing them to

two women who are willing to share

their stories.

Take a seat. I am

Erin, I do day to find that a

company called Father, they are

software for teams to track, manage

and complete their work. We are

cropping pretty quickly so recently

I transitioned from being just a

data scientist also managing data

scientist and I think it has been

difficult in a couple of different

ways. Now that I'm a manager I am

suddenly in meetings with a lot of

other managers, I don't talk unless

someone explicitly asks me for my

opinion about something. If I am

asked to talk, I would say a little

bit of shakiness in my voice. I also

definitely drop a register of my

voice, I am speaking lower so I

can't release Nick loudly because it

is uncomfortable. And then I started

trail off and, get...

Erin Prospect

fear of speaking up in meetings of a

common one amongst women so perhaps

she can enlighten the team about

what is holding her back.

In my mind

I start to go into my head about,

like, how many people are in the

room and how valuable their time is.

As everyone in the remit to hear

this? I have a lot of filters I go

through that I don't know that

everyone necessarily goes through.

Our research shows and a group of

eight, three people will speak 67%

of the time. So in general, there

are a lot of people who dominates

the airtime and it isn't unusual.

Despite all of that, environments

where it is a competition, you do

want to speak up.

When you do speak

up in meetings, how do you feel that

people will respond? Do you feel you

were taken seriously?

I've not had a ton of problems

I've not had a ton of problems in my

current company with people talking

over me or things like that. It is

more about the confidence.

Confidence may be part of errant's

issue. That is not a problem for

software engineer layer. She still

found the tech industry difficult to

navigate as a woman.

It is a

thousand little cuts. A lot of

little things, signifiers that you

are not as respected. I drove to the

city from Stanford for two hours to

do this in-person interview. At the

very end of it they told me they did

not think I was a good fit. Then the

head of recruiting wanted to give me

a hug. There are some definite

challenges associated with being a

woman intact, especially a woman of

colour. One of my co-workers put his

hand on my bottom and I remember at

that moment thinking was a! In

hindsight, 2020, was unacceptable. I

was a deer in the headlights.

Did

you think about afterwards bringing

it up to the HR department?

I

decided not to report it because I

wanted a job in that company.

You

are being personally assaulted and

you have to spend so much time

thinking about how he will take it

or how to phrase it to HR so it is

not turned back on you as the in

turn, as the in this situation.

So

we have met Erin and Lea.

What do

you think? I think the myriad

experiences of all women.

It was

very brave and courageous of them to

speak up and share these

experiences.

We have a lot to look

forward to. Thank you very much for

your time and also for getting

involved. Let's see what happens

next. We are setting up a base camp

at the playground. An incubator for

start-ups in Palo Alto, complete

with state-of-the-art 3-D printers.

The team have split up to fight the

battle of the bald room -- the

battle of the boardroom on different

fronts. Rumman and the Tarlee are

working together.

We think we will

narrow width down into something we

can accomplish in a few days. We

will not break the glass ceiling in

a few days.

You will need to pace

yourself.

It is easy to get carried

away and say I will do one more

thing and then the next thing you

know it is for AM...

You're eating

takeaway pizza and its terrible.

And

Roya will lead a separate work

stream and has been influenced by

errant's experiences of nervousness

in meetings.

It stuck with me when

she was talking about how she would

get these biological symptoms when

she was in a meeting and she feels

that she has to say something but

then she does not say it and the

heartbeat and sweating and

breathing. It was quite interesting

to me to hear that.

Meanwhile,

Laurie will be ensuring that the two

solutions are grounded in solid

research. In her office at Stanford

University she shared her thoughts

with me on the challenges ahead.

One

of the things I hope we identify the

Micro dynamics. The amount of times

people, when they approach this

issue, want a big solution. I

believe it is how much we do every

day. The dynamics of whether my

ideas of valued. Or whether when you

talk about who did great work

whether my name is included in that

list. Those Micro dynamics really

matter but are often overlooked. We

need to change that and I hope we

will tackle those issues.

There is a

lot to consider as the team hunt for

solutions. They do have their work

cut out over the next few days. Live

from silicon value, you are with me

in the newsroom of Aussie .com. The

BBC 100 William -- women challenge

launches into its second day was a

global radio broadcast. The

challenge team are with me. Eireann

is also on hand to share her

experiences in tech.

I have a hard

time speaking up in meetings.

And

there is a roomful of people who

want to have their say about gender

in the boardroom. Will this

conversation give our teams extra

inspiration and guidance?

Is it true

that 40 years ago, almost, in 1978

yup coined the term the glass

ceiling?

I am embarrassed to say

that was our long ago.

Time to get

an update from the Tarlee and Roya.

They had been listening in and had

some ideas. I can see a lot of code

going on.

What are you doing? There

is a lot of emotional labour

involved for someone who does not

fit the dominant culture of Silicon

Valley. We think it is important to

share the work across allies,

management, meeting facilitators to

change meeting culture to be more

inclusive.

Could I thank our experts

here. Radio programme comes to an

end. I will return with a solution

on Friday. And that is just a

quarter days away. It is time to

check on another member of the team.

Hours the project going?

The

challenge invent a prototype? Good

so far. We have tapped into a few

former students of my boot camp to

come and help. A few data

scientists, a couple of programmers

and hopefully a designer.

Can you

rely on them? Will they deliver

something?

Hopefully.

Roya wants to

catch up with one of the key guests

after the show. Marilyn is a gender

work place specialist and invented

the term glass ceiling back in 1978.

Roya wants her opinion on one of her

ideas.

As part of our concept

development we thought about having

a secret sisterhood Society for

women where, that they could send

each other messages and be part of

his women network.

When I was a

young woman in business, I was

isolated from other women.

Networking became important. When

you are working in a hostile

environment where women gather it is

seen as an act of rebellion, you

need the anonymity to share ideas

and share experiences but to know

you will not be analysed for it. I

think that some sort of an anonymous

network or an off-line network would

be useful.

With Marilyn's

confirmation that she is heading in

the right direction, Roya and the

rest of the team wrap things up

before they make their way back to

base. Meanwhile, I had to San

Francisco to get the more insights

into how gender affects your

workplace experience. Theoretical

neuroscientist Vivian underwent a

gender reassignment operation ten

years ago.

Not many women spent the

first half of their lives as a man.

Not many women grew up without

people telling them they couldn't do

maths.

Did you notice the difference

when you came into the workplace as

a woman?

I showed up at work and

everyone was amazingly embracing and

they were so kind and I thought wow,

all of those stories you heard, they

are wrong. This can be a wonderful

experience. But I then almost

immediately notice that no-one asked

me maths questions any more. People

that actually knew me beforehand, in

some ways it was like the ultimate

acknowledgement that I was a woman

in the workplace but it was so stark

and shocking.

What did you do in

that situation?

I will go into the

details of the paper I published on

the specific subject that they are

talking to me about. I will take

them on a tour of the algorithms I

invented. When people doubt my

technical skill, the single best

thing I can do is make them realise

how foolish there.

Vivian has the

confidence to stand up for herself

in difficult situations. But back at

the playground, work is well to help

women in male dominated industries

who cannot get their voices heard.

Roya has drafted in some volunteers.

Camille is a mechanical engineer who

will help with hardware. Her claim

to fame is that she once to Barack

Obama when he came to speak at her

college.

He made a visit to our

school and I was selected as one of

the engineering students to

introducing. When he got on stage he

made a point to speak about my

position as a woman in science. Also

new to the team is Julie, and

industrially -- industrial designer.

And Betsy, who had flown in from New

York. Shu runs a company creating

wearable technology for dogs. Roya

has chosen her recruits carefully.

She has decided that one of her

prototypes will be a pair of

wearable technology allowing the

wearer to receive positive messages

from other women.

We tend to stay

away from these sort of things...

She has a plan for a separate piece

of work as well.

Eye-catching art

aimed at men. We were talking about

how men need to be educated as well.

We thought that we would have some

sort of physical installation,

experiential thing.

With an

abundance of ideas the physical

objects to make, it is time for her

team to hit the shops.

An gonna

check Amazon Prime now.

I found the

resistors.

Whoo-hoo! Christmas has

come early!

This makes a great

sound.

That would be exciting...

Natalya and Rumman's new recruits

have also arrived. Skip and Dwight

will come in useful because the

women have decided that their tech

solution to address gender dynamics

in meetings should be an app and

they reckon they can make one in

three days. There we go.

Is their

feedback about their emotional

state?

Like an emerging?

Are we

providing that?

Like soliciting?

It

is getting towards the end of two

and Roya's team has decided that the

wearable tech should take the form

of a piece of jewellery. These

wearable prototypes. And I have a

look at them?

I won't break

anything? No. Now you will not. ,

ladies. You can see we tried to make

this model and the prototype, what

we wanted to talk about, how these

wearable 's track women's biological

responses.

A pendant as this could

Howells the equipment. Is exciting

to see this.

This is just the first

point. Year will continue to evolve

and develop. Check back in with us.

Well done. Rumman and Natalya's team

also had a good day with their app

so they decided to call it a night.

The intensive coding session will

begin tomorrow. We have reached the

halfway point of the challenge week.

Rumman and Natalya's sub team is

attempting to build an app to assist

with meeting dynamics. They only

have two days left to get ready for

Friday's reveal.

We are building a

react app. React native is an open

source tool put out by Facebook that

lets us right code in Java script

which is the language of web

development, and compile that into

iPhone and android apps. What is

open source? It means that the code

is available to anyone who wants to

use it.

At the meeting's app will

use voice recognition technology to

track who is speaking in meetings

and will be able to produce in-depth

feedback on meeting dynamics. What

is this?

That is a natural

processing tool that can do

interesting things with words.

People can figure out the emotion

behind your words, positivity, it

can tell how the times you refer to

yourself. Percentage of time spoken,

cognitive words versus emotional.

These rule possibilities for what

the app can do?

We do not have a

good name for it yet.

A name. I can

help you with a. We will use the

BBC's website and social media to

ask the audience to help Rumman and

Natalya to come up with a name for

their app.

De need anything? OK.

Meanwhile, Roya is going shopping

again but she is leaving -- leaving

her team behind.

It is human sized, the height. So if

we glue this together.

When it gets really loud I don't

want to add my voice to the

cacophony. I back off when things

get clustered.

And Roya is back from

the shops.

Hello!

How is it going.

Good!

Some of the BBC's foreign

bureaux have helped her crowd saw

stories of workplace sexism from all

around the world, or her art

installation aimed at men. And now

she wants more help is to home from

Lori.

We get all these responses

from around the world and we would

like to record it in a woman's voice

and also a man's voice. And I was

wondering if you had the research

that you mentioned about perception

and how...

Yes, Ed King is studying

in linguistics at Stanford and he

studied when the exact same word is

said by a man's voice authored by a

woman's voice, it changes the

perception of the word and its

associations.

It would be great to

have, like, a research from a man,

you know, that works perfectly, with

the whole installation. It is called

me too, so we want all of the man to

get on board and say, you know what?

Me too. When Roya name the

installation she could never have

imagined that two weeks later me too

would become a globally recognised

hashtag in the campaign against

sexual harassment. Lori has offered

to pick the stories that will be

recorded to the art installation and

she is using Erin as a sounding

board.

This is one, a friend was

going to defend her Ph.D. Thesis in

engineering in front of a jury and

before she began her presentation,

the professor on the jury asked why

it is a pretty woman like you need

an engineering degree?

Oh!

This is

from Singapore. I had a meeting with

a man I'd never met before. As he

arrived he said your boss is he

running late? I said no, she is on

time, and started showing him

around.

As well as providing stories

from Roya 's installation, BBC

audiences have also come up with a

world of ideas for the name of Raman

and Natalia's meeting up.

Can run

through a of them? Finland, me too

meeting. Or a GM, which they want to

stand for all gender meetings.

Another one, no eyes. No eye in

team, is in parentheses.

I like the

ones we explained. As opposed to

man's planning.

Ally and a line,

right?

What about ally and a hyphen?

Like leaning in?

OK, no filming. No,

and till six, because we really have

to get it done and, you know, the

time that of the clock is... Even if

I am just looking? No, please, just

come back after six. We have to keep

working. We need a working prototype

at tomorrow morning, so...

She is

looking... Camille is still in

there. Looking incredibly... What is

she doing? She has three lakh tops,

a lot of computers on the headphones

on. She doesn't even notice that I'm

actually here. -- laptops. If I'm

going to go unnoticed, it is time

for a change of scene. I had over

the Mountain View to check at the

computer history Museum. On Friday

the team will reveal the results of

their week 's work to an invited

audience here. The computer history

Museum started getting our

fellowships in 1987 and he is the

first one was the woman but since

then, if we look through the

decades, there is only the old woman

that picks up on this wall. I want

to turn to this man, Gordon, he

predicted that computer Power would

grow exponentially in the coming

years. And it was known as Moore 's

Law. What I would like to see is a

Moz law for the women around the

boardroom tables in Silicon Valley,

said to grow exponentially and who

knows, you may even see a few more

women's faces here as well. It is

getting late in the day and Roya 's

only just been able to get into the

workshop.

We have our four pieces

and we also have our screws. But put

them together.

All they and all of

the night. All day. And all of the

night.

It looks good.

As Roya works

into the night in the workshop...

There is a ploy for her team working

on the interactive neck lace. The

name they wanted to use have been

taken.

Let's brainstorm. What else?

Could it be something around tech or

what about STEM?

Definitely STEM.

What about STEM sisters.

But his

cool. They finally agreed to call it

the collective sisters.

That's one

problem solved.

We need to have a

list of names... The team developing

the meeting at have some technical

issues to fix.

That is fine but are

you going to be able to connect the

speakers? From your diarist nation

with that? Because that would have

worked fine when we had separate

audio channels but if we are having

one...

Weight, but doesn't this go

back to everybody saying, like, my

name is Alan and...

That's right.

That sounds good. The men, if we can

do something like that, that would

be great.

I suspect everyone is in

for a long night. It is a new dawn,

a new day. I am feeling good. How

was the team feeling this morning?

So, talking about that tournament

came up, these people behind this

door, actually saw it because they

haven't got any sleep last night,

working on the project. Maybe

unsurprisingly they don't want to

talk to me right now. After another

late night on Roya 's team, it is

time to Betsy to head back to New

York.

CU!

I've just met so many

incredible women. I really believe

in what we are building and things

that could change the world. Very

excited to see how it all comes

together.

As one woman heads back to

the east coast, another special

guest flies in from Boston to boost

the team. Social psychologist Amy

Cuddy is an internet phenomenon, her

tent talk on how Bodyline witch and

posture can affect confidence has

been watched more than 43 million

times. Can her research and

experience help Erin overcome her

fear of speaking up in meetings?

What kinds of situations do you find

the most comfortable at work?

I do

pretty well one on one to think that

his good in my new responsibilities

in management. In bigger group

settings like a meeting I have a

problem. And then once the group

gets really big again, public

speaking, I don't have a problem as

much.

That's interesting because

that is how I am. I have trouble

that the group and I think it is

because certain people are really

tuned in to what is happening with

the dynamics with each person are

you a kind of worried about what

each person is thinking or doing and

concerned about whether they feel

that they are participating or maybe

reading too much into what you think

they think of you.

When I first

walked in I think there is almost

like an excitement and anticipation

of what will happen.

That is good.

And when you leave? Definitely

regret. And what other thoughts?

It

depends. If I didn't talk at all

that is the regret usually and I'm

fixated on something I wish I had

said. If I do talk about than the

regret is almost always focused on

did it come out the way I wanted it

to?

Exactly. That is what we call

postevent processing, or relating,

and the problem was that is you

don't get a do over. -- ruminating.

It ever happens you have to go

forward. One of the findings are

love is that one way that people can

overcome stage fright is to reframe

anxiety as excitement, so before

they go on stage, which is your

going into a meeting, rather than

thinking oh my gosh I am so anxious,

they think I am really excited. If

they could tell themselves they are

excited, that change is a higher

arousal that is negative into a

higher arousal motion that his

positive. What it can do is change

your body language to match

confidence and power and

assertiveness and what happens is

you kind of trick your mind into

following your body. So I often say

we are not good at talking ourselves

off the ledge but we are good at

walking ourselves off the ledge. So

I think one thing I wonder you could

do before you go when is to make

sure that you are not sort of

hunched over your computer,

reviewing your notes, or on your

phone texting someone to talk about

your worries. So that you are not

sort of reviewing what you want to

say but instead, getting your body

to expand and feel a bit more

powerful, so that you reset your

mind such that you can communicate

in a way that is more compelling.

What I see when I interact with you,

I have only known you for about 20

minutes now that I get such a strong

sense of ground Apeness and warmth

and confidence and what you know

that you really tricky Cunico those

things. You are really able to be

there and be present and I know, I

am 100% confident that you will be

able to do this in meetings.

Thank

you.

How was your session with Amy?

So good. It felt like she really saw

me and understood my situation and

even said it was something that she

had felt with herself as we think it

really felt to her.

You are in the

eye of the storm for want of a

better term over the past week as

everybody goes about their business,

they have sort of had you in their

mind that I can imagine that is

draining in a lot of ways.

It has

been exciting but also really

emotionally taxing sometimes. And

there is a point in the week where

it started to feel really, like, I

am the person who cannot speak in

meetings and, like, that was more of

my identity that I think it was.

I

understand and I want to review the

rate of fact it is so brave to come

forward at it isn't all of you, it

is one thing in your career you were

trying to work with.

Probably can't

wait for your next meeting. Yes!

Renewed on! There is just hours to

go rental tomorrow's big reveal

event. Roya have come to the

financial services company into it

to get some comments on the wearable

clothes. Once I'm about to go into a

meeting or on stage to present

something, I can use my phone to

send a message to my five or six

people who are in my support

network, and they are able to send

me a vibration, so I feel the

vibration and it is like, it gives

me the feeling that I know I am not

alone in this as there are people

who have in this office who are

thinking about me and sending me,

like, Trudeau 's old go ahead, you

will do great.

Do you get like the

whole sentence or are you able to

know what they praised you by

saying? If you time to look at your

phone, yes. It is on the up.

Do I

want the amount of people in my

meeting to notice that I am getting

support or do I want it to be

really, this is just in their place

but secretly, I know that they are

supporting me.

We wanted to be

discreet which is what we are too

small. Thank you for your time. It

was helpful to get their feedback,

the questions they would have,

whether they would understand the

concepts.

Meanwhile, Natalia and

Raman are able to test a working

prototype of their meetings up with

Erin, who stands to benefit from it

so much.

Here we are, we have not

been allowed in this room all day

but Erin is about to head home and

you have some link to show her?

Yes,

we haven't application ready to show

you. Exciting. The name is like

because it is artificial

intelligence underneath and is

representative of a lightship.

The

Erin to test the apps, I can no

longer resist the temptation to

check out Roya's art installation

using stories of sexism from over

the world which is about to take

around the streets to Reuters before

tomorrow. The four road test. It is

huge. OK, BBC 100 women. Let's see

what is on the other side. The rest

the hashtag me too. What the sexism

sounds like and then we have got a

map of the world. So this is what

was going on behind the closed doors

of Roya and her team. I wonder what

his next. Tomorrow, all will be

revealed.

And with the meeting tested, it is

time to get some rest, finally.

So

it has been how long since we left

this building?

More than 30 hours.

It is the first time we have been

outside?

Daylight!

We missed the

daylight.

We might want to think

about the big reveal tomorrow and

how we will reveal our apps. But

mostly we all looking forward to

watching Netflix and going to sleep.

Five days ago, for strangers became

one team and together, they bravely

accepted the first ever BBC 100

Women in change. --4 strangers. In

the audience, Silicon valley's

finance. -- finest. Gender

inequality experts.

Welcome to our

glass ceiling challenge and for many

of us, it feels like the glass

ceiling is a moving target. Here we

are in the computer history Museum.

ISA today we are making history.

First up is this interactive

necklace.

It is wearable technology

that would allow women and their

allies, men, to communicate and send

each other good vibes. Actually, I

feel like I am getting some

vibrations through my predator.

Camille has been sending a message

to her fellow teammate.

She says you

do you, boo.

And it's not long until

she receives and other message for

herself. Bello what are these? I

collect you are getting an

important, empowering message from

someone. -- what are these?

You

heard Camille's story. She is a

great example of why we are

encouraging more women and more

minorities to study in high-paying

feels that traditionally, man always

participated in, science and

engineering and technology.

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.

Do you want to talk a little bit

about the necklace you are wearing?

It is a really good example of how

we can bring our digital space into

empowerment for individuals. You

know, we have all these online ideas

and Internet of things but from

here, you can see an example of how

we can connect to other people.

Next

up is the app meeting with dynamics

now called all.ai put up how can we

leveraged the power of data side and

a I would engineering in the

background to make an app to help

with meeting dynamics.

We came up

with this concept. We will show you

a video of Erina using the up. I am

about to head into a meeting and am

going to try out the all.ai up for

the first time. In this case, I want

to choose to be empowered. It looks

like it's asking me how I'm going to

empower myself. I'm just going to

tap here and say, " I want to speak

at least once in this meeting"

tap here and say, " I want to speak

at least once in this meeting",

starting with small calls is one of

the things. Then after that, it

gives a suggestion, saying you can

use a power phrase before you make

the point. I think the idea there is

if I start with something I really

feel strong about saying, I can

finish the rest of my thoughts

without feeling stress. Now, I can

just press to record and heading to

the meeting to get started. So, I've

just come out of my meeting and now

I'm looking at my summary stats from

the meeting in the all.ai up. It

looks kind of like that. It shows me

how long I spoke and it looks like I

spoke for four all minutes which

exceeds my goal of speaking once and

that I was really positive and

honest when I spoke. So, good

information and to have.

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Because we are tech people, we are

thinking of all the things we want

to do.

What I actually want to do is

create a geek -- deeper

recommendation system to attract

people over time and help them

accomplish their goals with

customised acts -- customised

actions.

Basically the quality of

the meeting and participation in it,

over time facilitators can use it to

track... You know, maybe it is the

most productive when we asked people

to go around the room before we make

a decision or other strategies.

And

finally, Roy introduces her art

installation, what does sexism sound

like?

The first one is an

experiential installation. We got

amazing stories from women around

the world about what sexism feels

like in the workplace. We recorded

them saying it and then we asked a

man to do the same thing.

It was

very interesting, there was a guy

saying I had to take my daughter

into work because I don't have

paternity leave and then he said I

still feel like I'm pregnant and

then after that, a woman said the

same thing so it was very different.

It was kind of weird hearing a guy

say that.

Do you have a word to

describe you feeling? Lim I'm going

to write bias will stop -- I'm going

to write bias.

Heard a male and a

female and said that you didn't have

turned say anything but where

something attractive and just stay

there. As a female, that is related

will.

The moment of truth. What do

the two women who's -- experiences

inspired this challenge, speak.

Layout, who has been one done by the

sexism in Silicon valley.

Oh, my

God, this is awesome. We can

together to talk about a problem

that is effectively on a very daily

basis. Thank you so much.

It has

been amazing to see all of your work

and to spend time with you and learn

from all of the incredible knowledge

you have.

Errant's highlight of the

week was the one-on-one session with

social psychologist Amy Cuddy. What

do she make of the team's work?

I am

so impressed with all of you and I'm

intimidated and that makes me happy.

I called my husband last night and I

said to him, "These women are so

amazing that I feel a sense of

hope."

I officially declare that we

have cracked the glass ceiling!

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. Thank you.

With the challenge successfully

completed, the team can finally

relax for the first time in a week

and catch up with their supporters.

This is my daughter, Katie. She is

amazing, she is one of our rock

stars and at the same time, I wanted

the next generation to be inspired

by the current generation. It feels

the past few years here have been a

setback for us. We have had a lot of

Procol Chart coming up and we felt

like we almost had it solved and we

absolutely dote. -- bro culture. We

have to keep pushing.

It is really

inspirational to see that they are

actually working to make a change.

When I all dark and working, it

makes living people -- Exley think

things will be different.

I would

like to have a level playing field

for my daughter who has just started

taking computer programming.

I think

it is really amazing it in such a

short time span, we have been able

to do so much. It's like, wow.

An

impressed with the ideas that come

up. Giving women practical tools.

Over time, people will hopefully

realise, there is a lot more we can

gain as a society if we are more

inclusive.

And, society has

certainly gained from these

remarkable women, coming together to

create one phenomenal team.

It was

really interesting to meet my team

for the first time. Like, I haven't

met any of those awesome women

before so we really bonded and even

though we pulled all nighters, we

were laughing and dancing and it was

really, really fun.

There were times

during the week where we thought the

days were so long and we didn't

think we had anything left to give

to this project. And then I just

looked to my teammates and I

realised, it is not whether I can do

it it's whether we can do it

together so connecting with

strangers, doing something

remarkable, I will always carry that

experience with me.

It was amazing

that people of colour, then, people

all around the globe participating

in this challenge was not as women,

we often think it is our own battle

to fight and for me, it has been a

learning experience and there has

been a lot of people who will

actively help you.

We were tasked

with doing something very ambitious

and there were moments where I

doubted whether we could do it and

out of my own abilities. I think all

takeaway confidence in myself and

really identify with our case

studies and I think being able to

build something with them and

realising I -- realising I identify

with them too, I can take some of my

own advice in some ways.

Silicon

valley is an extraordinary place.

People come together, working long

hours to invent and create items

that we don't even know that we need

yet. But that will become essential

to our lives. What we do know, there

is a gender equality issue in the

tech industry and we hope, with the

BBC's 100 Women season and their

first ever challenge, that we will

have at least made a dent in that

so-called glass ceiling and perhaps

to help the next generation of women

find a seat at the boardroom table.

Next time, the 100 Women challenge

heads Delhi where a new team has to

tackle the problem of literacy in

India.