Geek Goddess 2019 will pick the best women coders

TechGig, a Times Internet-backed platform for IT professionals, has announced the new edition of Geek Goddess 2019 to find the best women coders in the country, in a bid to improve the representation of women in the field of technology.

The fifth edition of TechGig Geek Goddess will take place in the second week of November; while the women-only coding competition will accept code submissions till October 14.

So far, TechGig has received 37,705 registrations for the coding challenge this year. For decades, women have been poorly represented in the technology industry. In fact, a TechGig survey conducted among women IT professionals revealed that 74% of women in technology believe that a definite bias exists against them and that their suggestions are often not taken seriously by male colleagues.