Our stereotypical world and gender-discriminating
politics/policies have landed women with choice few careers to follow, stamping
on their creativity, aptitude and intellect. Inspite of this, modern times have
seen women emerging in all kinds of fields, still the ratio of women to men in
computing and engineering fields is very low.
ACM-W (Association of
Computing Machinery – Women Wing), inaugurated
today (Thursday, October, 16th 2014) at SEECS, NUST by Ms.
Nigar Nazar, aims at addressing this very issue by providing a platform
to the women on which they can not only test and polish their existing skills
and train themselves at new ones but also explore innumerable opportunities in
taking up a career in computing. It basically aims at advocating women
empowerment and encourages women to be a part of the technological world.
Ms. Nigar Nazar, CEO of the Gogi Studios, the first cartoonist of Pakistan and
thus the perfect candidate for the occasion, was the Chief Guest at the
inaugural ceremony where she talked about her own experience with technology
and how it helped her excel in her field. She showed the audience her work
(digitized comics, animations, greeting cards with her famous Gogi character on
them etc.) as a way to make us appreciate how much further than a drawing sheet
an artist can go by using modern technology. She said that an artist is no
longer confined to the constraints of his/her easel and paint brush, same goes
for all the other professions; all due to technology.
ACM-W’s chair, Azka
Nadeem, Vice Chair, Rushda Basir,
ACM’s faculty advisor, Mr. Sohail Iqbal
and ACM President, Aadil Jalil
Chaudhary also spoke about their views of the women wing and what they
expect of it. At the end Ms. Nigar was awarded a shield for honoring the
occasion with her presence, and then she officially declared the ACM - Women
Chapter open.
All the audience were given greeting cards by Gogi-studios,
and ten lucky people were given gogi comic books. Later everyone proceeded for
the cake cutting ceremony. After that Ms. Nigar accompanied by Faculty members
and Chairs and vice chairs proceeded to the faculty lounge for tea.
The inauguration went really well since a lot of people
turned up, and now that the Women Wing is official we hope to work together and
make it as much of a success as ACM itself.
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