English Summary/英文概要： Women have fought their way to the top in fields that have been male dominated for years, yet, they still face challenges in gaining investment, being acknowledged as experts and being included at the highest level. With the growth in AI it is more important than ever that women’s voices are heard to avert the inherent sex bias and misogyny of our culture being perpetuated. 50 Women in Technology sheds light on the work of forgotten pioneers who defied expectations and broke new ground working in health, IT, maths, genetics, astronomy and many others.

It also includes 25 exclusive interviews with women who are at the forefront today, developing new products and making discoveries in the fast-paced world of technology including 2023 Nobel prize-winner Katalin Karikó; plus: Amalia Ballarino (Nuclear Engineer), Ana Oliveira (Crop Genetics), Anaïs Engelmann and Meghan Hale (Design Engineering), Anda Waluyo Sapardan (Medical Tech/Healthcare), Anna Lukasson-Herzig (Computing/AI), Brenda Romero (Video Games), Clarice Phelps (Nuclear Chemist), Claudia Brind -Woody (IT), Emily Holmes (Neuroscientist). Gretchen Andrew (NFT Artist), Ida Tin (FemTech), Kasia Gora (Food Tech), Marita Cheng (Robotics), Mary Lou Jepsen (Imaging/Healthcare), Odunayo Eweniyi (Financial Tech), Rumman Chowdhury (Internet Algorithms/Data Science), Sheri Graner Ray (Videogames), Stephanie Willerth, (Bioengineering), Tan Le (Medical Tech) and Yewande Akinola (Sustainability), Erica Kang (crypto), Maria Carolina Fujihara (Decarbonisation), Mary Agbesanwa (fintech), Coty Craven (gaming accessibility), Morenike Fajemisin (FemTech).

Awards/获奖情况： “[In the laboratory] they thought I was the new janitor.” – Clarice Phelps, Nuclear Chemist.

“Why do I get a tenth of the funding that men that have projects at large corporations do?” – Mary Lou Jepsen, inventor.

“I asked ‘why isn’t there a girl character for me to choose from?’ At first, they laughed. Then, they got annoyed at me and started having design meetings and not tell me where they were.” – Sheri Graner Ray, videogame designer.

“My surname is Andrew, so people kept asking who was this Andrew that I collaborated with and if he was the one who did the technology side of my work.” - Gretchen Andrew, NFT Artist.

“At the first conference I did, somebody asked me whose girlfriend I was and I had to say “no, I’m presenting”. - Emily Holmes, Neuroscientist.

Since 2018 she has made something of a speciality of writing scientific obituaries which include: Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998); The Common Thread: A story of science, politics, ethics and the human genome with John Sulston (Bantam 2002); A computer called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the world’s first office computer (Fourth Estate 2003); Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Chatto & Windus 2007); EMBO in perspective: A half-century in the life sciences (EMBO 2014)

Inês Almeida has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and during her degree she worked at a local radio station, interviewing people from several fields, including technology. After graduating, she moved to Macau SAR (China) where she worked as a reporter at first and progressing to become editor for a local newspaper. During the six years she worked in Macau, she covered events such as an annual “Start-up Weekend” for women in technology and the launch of two new State Laboratories (one for the “Internet of Things and Smart Cities” and another for “Sciences of the Moon and Planet”). She also had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of tech giants such as Tencent and DJI in Shenzhen (China) and to interview some of the companies’ executives. In December of 2020, after working in China, she moved to London to pursue a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Roehampton which she completed, with merit, in 2023. She currently works for Aurora Metro and Supernova Books.

Mary Lou Jepsen is a visionary in the tech industry. She doesn’t just dream up the future, she actually creates it with over 250 patents and 50 game-changing products to her name.

From virtual and augmented reality systems to laptops and smartphones, from holography to health wearables, Jepsen has touched a wide range of technologies. And she’s not slowing down. Right now, she’s working on a suite of cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutic wearables aimed at curing cancer, mental diseases, and stroke.

Jepsen was executive director of engineering at both Google and Facebook, a CTO at Intel, and the founder of four successful startups, including One Laptop per Child, which transformed education in developing countries and became a multi-billion dollar non-profit.

Jepsen is a former professor at MIT and currently serves as a director at two public companies: LEA (NYSE) a $20 billion tier-1 automotive company, and LAZR (NASDAQ) the world leader in LiDAR systems. She’s advised government officials in multiple countries, including the United States, and has been recognized by TIME magazine’s "Time 100" as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, CNN’s top 10 thinkers, Forbes’ 50 over 50, and numerous professional societies in the fields of optics, display, and electronics.

Jepsen is a sought-after keynote speaker and has given two highly viewed TED talks. She’s frequently featured in top global press publications and is a true force to be reckoned with in the tech world.