{"id":105584,"date":"2023-05-05T11:54:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/?p=105584"},"modified":"2023-05-05T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:54:30","slug":"encouraging-women-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/encouraging-women-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging Women in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #00a1ff !important;\">Sirisha Peyyeti, Senior Vice President of Digital Engineering Services, Cigniti Technologies<\/span> | Wednesday, 19 April 2023[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/best-u-s-cities-for-women-stem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"broken_link\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-105585 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/Encouraging-women-in-stem.png\" alt=\"Encouraging Women in STEM\" width=\"644\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/Encouraging-women-in-stem.png 644w, https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/Encouraging-women-in-stem-500x266.png 500w, https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/Encouraging-women-in-stem-50x27.png 50w, https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/Encouraging-women-in-stem-600x319.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What inspired or encouraged you to pursue a career in STEM?<\/p>\n<p>Peyyeti: \u201cThere are a large number of opportunities for getting into STEM, irrespective of gender. That provided the much-needed initial impetus. But, subsequently, making a career in STEM was mainly due to the interest in the area. Computer programming had caught up and was throwing many challenges that made it an interesting field, and equally important was the fact that this was a field that provided financial stability with a great career path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What have you found to be the biggest challenge along the way?<\/p>\n<p>Peyyeti: \u201cHonestly, I am fairly happy with the way my career progressed. But, I would say\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Access the full coverage&#8221; style=&#8221;classic&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; color=&#8221;primary&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commercialcafe.com%2Fblog%2Fbest-u-s-cities-for-women-stem%2F|target:_blank&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sirisha Peyyeti, Senior Vice President of Digital Engineering Services, Cigniti Technologies | Wednesday, 19 April 2023[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What inspired or encouraged you to pursue a career in STEM? Peyyeti: \u201cThere are a large number of opportunities for getting into STEM, irrespective of gender. That provided the much-needed initial impetus. But, subsequently, making a career in STEM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coforge.site\/cigniti_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}