Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection
Reshma Saujani: Učite djevojke hrabrosti, a ne savršenosti
Through her nonprofit, Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani initiates young women into the tech world. Her goal: one million women in computer science by 2020. Full bio
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safely behind the scenes in politics
u političkoj pozadini,
bila organizatorica,
oduvijek sam se željela kandidirati.
had been in my district since 1992.
zastupa moj okrug od 1992.
in a Democratic primary.
na predizborima Demokratske stranke.
ovo je bio moj način
told a very different story.
that I was crazy to run,
da sam luda što se kandidiram,
in a New York City congressional race.
na njujorškim izborima za Kongres.
from the New York Daily News,
snapped pictures of me on election day,
fotografirao me na dan izbora,
races in the country.
jednima od najzanimljivijih u zemlji.
od svih koje sam poznavala,
an Indian girl was running.
što se jedna Indijanka kandidirala.
that said I was a rising political star
da sam politička zvijezda u usponu,
protratila 1,3 milijuna dolara
about the importance of failure.
of how I ran for Congress
kako sam se kandidirala za Kongres
in my entire life
that was truly brave,
jesam li savršena.
towards careers and professions
they're going to be great in,
going to be perfect in,
to avoid risk and failure.
da izbjegavaju rizike i neuspjeh.
and then just jump off headfirst.
a onda samo strmoglave.
or even asking someone out on a date,
ili pozivaju nekoga na spoj,
to take risk after risk.
preuzimati rizik za rizikom.
unless you've had two failed start-ups.
iza sebe niste imali dvije propale tvrtke.
about our federal deficit,
we're just losing out
jednostavno smo na gubitku
our girls to be brave.
da budu hrabre.
women are underrepresented in STEM,
zašto nema dovoljno žena u STEM-u,
handled an assignment
rješavaju zadatak
were quick to give up.
brzo odustaju.
the more likely they were to give up.
to be a challenge.
to redouble their efforts.
in every subject,
bolje od dječaka, iz svih predmeta,
i prirodne predmete,
and girls approach a challenge.
i djevojčice prilaze izazovu.
da se muškarci prijavljuju za posao
that men will apply for a job
of the qualifications,
traženih kvalifikacija,
of the qualifications.
traženih kvalifikacija.
as evidence that, well,
na ovo istraživanje kao na dokaz
to aspire to perfection,
da teže savršenstvu
less risks in our careers.
manje rizika u našim karijerama.
that are open right now
trenutno otvorenih radnih mjesta
is being left behind
women would solve
i problemi koje bi žene riješile,
to teach girls to code,
kako bih naučila djevojke programiranju,
is that by teaching them to code
obučavajući ih programiranju,
of trial and error,
pokušaja i pogrešaka,
in the right place,
do prave naredbe na pravom mjestu,
between success and failure.
između uspjeha i neuspjeha.
to build comes to life.
tells me the same story.
mi pričaju istu priču.
when the girls are learning how to code,
kad djevojke uče programiranje,
and she'll say,
programa za uređivanje teksta.
she'd think that her student
pomislila bi da je njena učenica
samo zureći u ekran.
just staring at the screen.
wrote code and then deleted it.
ispisala kôd, a potom ga izbrisala.
sve izvela kako treba.
the progress that she made,
are really good at coding,
zaista dobre u programiranju,
just to teach them to code.
at the University of Columbia
profesor na sveučilištu Columbia,
with computer science students.
računalnih znanosti.
with an assignment,
s mojim kôdom."
wrong with my code."
wrong with me."
the socialization of perfection,
društvenog nametanja savršenstva,
with building a sisterhood
s izgradnjom sestrinstva,
that they are not alone.
dalo do znanja da nisu same.
is not going to fix a broken system.
neće popraviti nefunkcionalan sustav.
cheering them on,
two of our high school students
protiv tabua o menstruaciji
for her new country
prema svojoj novoj zemlji,
to help Americans get to the polls.
Amerikancima da stignu do izbornih mjesta.
who built an algorithm
koja je napravila algoritam
is benign or malignant
je li rak benigni ili maligni,
that she can save her daddy's life
three examples of thousands,
socialized to be imperfect,
koje prihvaćaju svoju nesavršenost,
who have learned perseverance.
koje su naučile ustrajati.
more important for our country.
ovoliko važni za našu zemlju.
for any economy to grow,
half our population.
polovinu naše populacije.
to be comfortable with imperfection,
da prihvate svoju nesavršenost,
to learn how to be brave like I did
da nauče biti hrabre, poput mene
to be brave in schools
to impact their lives
na njihov život
that they will be loved and accepted
da će biti voljene i prihvaćene,
to tell every young woman you know --
kaže svakoj mladoj ženi koju poznaje -
your employee, your colleague --
vašoj radnici, vašoj kolegici -
girls to be imperfect,
of young women who are brave
mladih žena koje su hrabre
a better world for themselves
You have a vision.
are involved now in your program?
u tvom programu?
2012. podučavali smo 20 djevojaka.
So in 2012, we taught 20 girls.
in all 50 states.
njih 40,000 u svih 50 država.
7,500 women in computer science.
diplomiralo računalne znanosti.
that type of change quickly.
koje su danas ovdje,
of the companies in this room even,
graduates from your program?
to Pixar to Disney,
Pixara, Disneya,
I'm going to find you,
classroom in their office.
back from some of those companies
zastupljeni svi spolovi
good things happen.
dešavaju se dobre stvari.
to think about the fact
kada razmislite o činjenici
consumer purchases are made by women.
potrošačkih kupovina obavljaju žene.
of 600 percent more than men.
600 posto češće od muškaraca.
the companies of tomorrow.
imaju raznolike timove
have diverse teams,
that are part of their engineering teams,
kao dio svojih inženjerskih timova,
čemu svjedočimo svakodnevno.
and we see it every day.
Radiš neizmjerno važan posao.
You're doing incredibly important work.
Daje ti snagu. Hvala ti.
More power to you. Thank you.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Reshma Saujani - Education activistThrough her nonprofit, Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani initiates young women into the tech world. Her goal: one million women in computer science by 2020.
Why you should listen
Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, the national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. The organization has already reached 90,000 girls in all 50 US states. She is the author of three books, including the forthcoming Brave, Not Perfect, which is scheduled for release in winter 2018, Women Who Don't Wait In Line and the New York Times Bestseller Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World. Her TED Talk has sparked a national conversation about how we're raising our girls. In 2010, Saujani surged onto the political scene as the first Indian American woman to run for US Congress. She has also served as Deputy Public Advocate for New York City and ran a spirited campaign for Public Advocate in 2013. She lives in New York City with her husband, Nihal, their son, Shaan, and their bulldog, Stanley.
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