Pursuing Professional Changes

Connecting with a community of women helped drive two Google software engineers to make important career transitions, merge their personal and professional interests, develop their leadership and speaking skills, and find greater career fulfillment. This is one of five articles providing personal perspectives on gender diversity in computing. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/DomqOa0pyos is a video interview in which Alice Bonhomme-Biais, a staff software engineer on the Google Crisis Response team, discusses the importance of gender diversity in computing with Alfred C. (Alf) Weaver, the director of the University of Virginia's Applied Research Institute. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/RD68hzlf1l0 is a video interview in which Raquel Romano, a senior software engineer on the Google Crisis Response team, discusses the importance of gender diversity in computing with Alfred C. (Alf) Weaver, the director of the University of Virginia's Applied Research Institute.