Today I addressed a room full of people about my work – and it was nothing to do with writing!
I was at a school in Ballsbridge giving a talk on my IT career to fifth-year students as part of the Ada Lovelace Initiative which is a grassroots movement to encourage more women to get involved in STEM – an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. In my case the class was mixed, so the students were thankfully spared any attempt at an Emmeline Pankhurst style monologue exhorting women to head for the barricades – which is fine, since I have limited time for her anyway.
