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Across the European Union, just 24 out of every 1,000 women in higher education are studying programmes related to information and communication technology (ICT). Of those 24, just 6 actually end up working in the digital sector. According to a report carried out by the European Commission entitled Women in the Digital Age, increased female participation in the digital sector would prompt an annual increase in GDP of around 16 billion euros. Aside from being a pressing social concern, the cost of inequality affects both businesses’ and the economy’s productivity.

Getting out of your comfort zone is no easy thing. It is only after a lot of hesitation and around 50 pros & cons lists that I decided it was time for a career change.

That’s why we chose to make a comparison between JavaScript and Ruby, which are both good languages to start learning how to code. Both have advantages and disadvantages, and it often depends on what your goals are.

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:

Attending a coding bootcamp in another country is like signing up for a triathlon and then requesting to do it blindfolded. It’s intense, it’s exhausting, and you’re probably going to make a fool of yourself. So far, it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

This whole mess started a long time ago. I was only 12 years old and my father, a quite successful computer science engineer, was making a superhuman effort to try to answer my question: why did a single 3.5-inch floppy disk (known back then as a “micro-disk”) could hold as much information as 18 of the larger, decade older, 8-inch predecessors? (A reasonable question that every 12-year-old kid needs have answered to go on about life.) It did not make sense to me how something a quarter as small in size could be in fact be several times larger in data storage capacity.