Patricia Ceysens, Open VLD-politica and Flemish minister of economy, entrepreneurs, science, innovation and foreign trade, states in a Belgian business and technology website, Data News, that women, ICT and technonogy are no obvious combination. The causes for this problem can be found in education first, then in the employment and finally in the image of the ICT sector itself.

Therefore, the Flemish goverment is working on serveral solutions for this problem. Like investing 9.1 million Euros in a sensitization policy that has to make young women more interested in  science and helps them to opt for a scientific or ICT discipline.

But there are other possibilities. Women are inspired by role models. Not that we absolutely should seek a female ‘Bill Gates’, but there are enough examples to us of female role models who made it in the world of science,mathematics and ICT.

For example Carine Moitier. This former marketer began in 1998 with Bivolino.com,  a website where you can order your custom made shirt. Nobody believed that fashion was possible on the Internet. As a pioneer of e-commerce in Belgium, it increased its turnover by 77% and won numerous prizes for her ‘world-Shop’. Someone who proved as a woman that ICT, women, and innovation indeed go together.