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Wi-Fi and a Computer, that’s all a Digital Nomad needs to work from the most beautiful Indonesian beaches or the most hyped cafés in Manhattan. Many of Ironhack alumni, after getting trained in Web Development, UX/UI Design or Data Analytics, have adopted this way of life. We asked them what were their favorite places to work at in the entire world. Here are their 5 favorite destinations that you should consider in 2019:

The right to education, women’s right to vote, parity in the eye of the Law and reproductive rights are all fruit of a movement that today focuses primarily on the pay gap. Over the last few days, the business cluster ClosingGap, which analyses society’s most pressing gender gaps, has published a report that reveals that Spanish women’s salaries are 21.9% lower than those of their male colleagues, which translates into an annual difference of €5,784.

Born in the nineties, I have witnessed the evolution of technology. I am perfectly aware of the deep transformation companies are currently undergoing, through the diffusion and the development of the Web. And do you know what I notice? It is that everyone is saying that coding is tomorrow ‘s skill and that everyone should learn it, but the majority of people only have a vague idea of what code is. Even though, I was evolving around the Web and Technology, I didn’t fully grasp what it was. And the key to better understand the world we are living in is code.

”I was working in restaurants for about 7 years before I came to Ironhack— that was my first job at 16.”  Today we interviewed Josh Alexy, one of our top-performing students in our coding bootcamp this past March at Ironhack Miami.

You’re probably heard the word “Big Data” over a million times! This has become a huge buzzword yet few people really knew what it meant. A couple of years have passed and data has become a key stake for all companies, whether they are in tech or not. The digitalization of clients’ information and products have generated a huge amount of data that companies can now use to make business decisions. 

Women’s relationship with science has always been rocky, just as it has been with other sectors in which women have had to fight to make a name for themselves, undoubtedly detrimental to scientific excellence and also to countries’ economic development. Despite having made great strides since the days when Concepción Arenal had to dress as a man to access education, it’s still important to ask ourselves what we can do as a society to increase female presence in scientific, technological, engineering and mathematics degrees, also known as STEM degrees.