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According to the Inter-American Development Bank, the technology industry, including software development, will be one of the sectors with the greatest expansion in this decade, requiring approximately 1.2 million additional professionals by 2025.

However, in addition to the education support needed to employ this number of individuals, another gap to meet for the development of the region is the gender deficit.

The participation of women in the tech sector in Latin America is low. According to the Global Gender Gap report, the World Economic Forum recognizes that in fields such as cloud computing, women represent only 25% or less of total staff.

In the same report, the World Economic Forum says that the region will reach gender parity in approximately 69 years. Measures such as the Women’s Empowerment Principles have been signed by more than 800 companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. This has helped not only for

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