According to an article on TechCrunch, there has been a steady rise in the number of projects aimed at making the world a safer place for women to live in. World over, people have been coming together in support of not just female empowerment, but also to support diversity of the people working in technology.
The article lists the instances of women gathering for a cause. The Hack4Change that was conducted in India following the rape of Nirbhaya, women in Egypt developing ‘Harassmap’, an app to report cases of sexual harassment in public, projects for transpeople working in technology and many more such examples are discussed in great detail.
International organisations are catching on with this trend and funding projects that work on making it safer and empower women all over the world. To read the article click here .
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