Women are important in technology, but it’s not exactly a cake walk being one in the industry. Just ask Ella Hilal, the director of data science at Shopify.
Hilal has been in Waterloo for nearly 15 years, completing her PhD in engineering at the University of Waterloo. She was one of about three women in her class of 40 and dealing with a pregnancy.
“During my PhD time after my comprehensive, me and my life partner found out that we were pregnant,” she says. While her male colleagues were sleeping in the lab to do more research, she had no such option.
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