International Women’s Day

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day was #EachforEqual. An

equal world is an enabled world. But, what does it mean to forge an enabled

world – especially in the workplace?

At Compass Plus, enabling women in the workplace means opening

opportunities, encouraging diversity, and championing change. Enabling women

means not just celebrating them, but highlighting their achievements and

innovations. Enabling women means freedom of choice.

These aren’t just empty platitudes we use to sound like we care – they are

mission statements. For this year’s International Women’s Day, we’ve shed a

light on the impact women make every day at Compass Plus, what women

mean to us as a company, and our initiative to promote greater inclusivity and

development of women on a global scale.

#EachforEqual #IWD2020

We began by taking a look at our IT4EVA project – an education software development programme

dedicated to training the next generation of female software engineers. The programme has

yielded a number of graduates who have gained professional qualifications to enable them various

avenues into the IT industry.

Speaking on the programme, IT4EVA Graduate and Software Engineer at Compass Plus, Victoria E.

Mialovskaya commented that “Women have been underrepresented for so long when it comes to

careers in technology … It’s time that women had the opportunity to shine as experts in tech and to

eliminate the imbalance we see so often.”

“Encouraging diversity is a top priority for us,” said Vyacheslav Arkadiev, Head of Applications

Software Directorate at Compass Plus. “IT4EVA allows us to translate our extensive software

development expertise into becoming an important access point to take women into top jobs in

IT. We look forward to seeing how this cultural transformation evolves, as more and more women

become highly skilled computer programmers.”

Educating the next generation of female software engineers

“Having a 6 year-old daughter makes me keenly aware and passionate that when she grows up she has equal opportunity to pursue any career she wants”.

“International Women’s Day to me is a celebration of freedom and equality; enabling everyone regardless of gender to have the opportunity to choose their own path”

Close to 40% of Compass Plus employees are women

More than a third of our management globally are women

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We followed by asking a number of our staff what International Women’s Day means to them, and looking

further at how we enable women at all levels of our company.

This International Women’s Day has been all about equality; opening opportunities, encouraging diversity,

and championing change.

We endeavor to do even more moving into the future

#EachforEqual #IWD2020