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Why it makes business sense to support women at work

Even though in many countries, women outperform men in education 50% of women abandon tech careers by the time they reach 35. "We have a broken structure of care. They leave the minute they either become mothers or they think they want to become mothers. And they look around and they say, Can I do that here? And the answer is normally, no. And even if you think about the way that we've built workplaces, we've built workplaces where the day is 9-5, when schools start at 8 and end at 3, you're already setting up women to fail," says Reshma Saujani Founder and CEO, Moms First

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