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Investing in women empowers society

Growing up in the United States, I always knew I wanted to have a career in computer science.

It was not an obvious future for me because, in the 1970s, I didn’t know many women who worked outside the home. But I was lucky. I had a mother who encouraged me to be anything I wanted to be—and a father who insisted that being a girl should never limit my dreams.

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