On Girls’ Day, young women have the chance to gain insights into the professional world for a day. A particular focus is on industries in which the proportion of women is less than 40%, such as IT, crafts, science and technology.
Why do we actually need Girls’ Day?
The explanation is simple. Despite particularly good schooling, more than half of the young women in Germany choose from only ten occupations in the dual system. Among these ten occupations, there is not a single scientific or technical one. Girls’ Day therefore offers young women the chance to immerse themselves in professional fields that they would otherwise not consider. It helps participating companies to present themselves to particularly female career starters and to dispel prejudices about certain activities.
At the launch of this year’s Girls’ Day under the motto “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Transformation of the World of Work”, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz discussed STEM career prospects with female students and experts. The Federal Chancellor stated: “Girls’ Day is important, ‘as long as it takes’ – as long as necessary. Our society is diverse and different – this should be reflected in working life. That is why it is so important to encourage girls to take up technical, scientific or mathematical professions. And that is why so many large, small and medium-sized companies are involved in Girls’ Day. They know: good teams are usually mixed teams.”
We fully agree with this statement and are supporting the campaign again this year by offering two female students the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of Kontor Business IT GmbH and our subsidiary, Splitbot GmbH. We were very pleased to have the two 14-year-olds Sarah and Nila with us today and to show them our everyday working life. We hope we were able to show them that IT is not boring.
