Tagged “women in tech”

IUT’s Faria Ahmed wins the All Girls Programming Contest at Dhaka University — and a school student from Sylhet takes the junior title

Faria Ahmed of the Islamic University of Technology finished first, ahead of MIST’s Nishat Tasnim and Sadia Jahan, at the contest held by…

2 May 2024

Bangladesh’s first woman programmer is 74 and still shipping software: Shaheda Mustafiz on NCR in 1976, the country’s first ATM code, and the men who asked “can she do it?”

She trained in software architecture at NCR in the US in 1975, joined its Dhaka office as systems manager in 1976 when no woman worked in…

8 Mar 2023

Trishna Dio turned down a job in Australia to earn dollars from Kakorkandi village; load-shedding is her only rival

An MBA, a Dhaka HR job she hated, a graphics course in Mymensingh, an $86 first order, and now Tk 60,000-86,000 a month from a Garo village…

23 Aug 2022