Statistics Versus Personal Experience: Stories of IBM Technical Working Women Around the World [The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Engineering FACTS]

For most women who enter the fields of science and engineering, the road is often circuitous, with detours along the way. The stories that accompany these career paths are not only interesting but provide guidance and insight to those who read them, who are perhaps searching for their own way forward. The goal of this article is to bring forward and illuminate the success stories of a diverse set of IBM technical women from around the world, demonstrating the rich and varied ways they have worked cross-culturally and globally to achieve professional success.