Women Leaders in Technology (WLiT) operates on the core conviction that women must possess key technical leadership positions and hold decisive authority in tech infrastructure. However, our systemic landscape evaluations indicate that the field remains drastically unbalanced.
Ecosystem Metrics (Bureau of Statistics Labor Force Survey)
While the male-to-female working-age baseline ratio in Nepal tracks at 100:125, real employment outcomes invert severely to a mere 100:59. Crucially, women are almost entirely missing from managerial layers, with fewer than 1 out of 7 managers across the country identifying as female.
To directly disrupt this systemic disparity, WLiT partnered with NWiC to deploy “Women Tech It Up!”—a strategic networking initiative engineered to forge an aggressive, interconnected ecosystem of women-led computing collectives.
The alliance formalized its structural agendas during a rigorous 2-day facilitated summit. Representatives worked through deep organizational mapping exercises to align on a shared future blueprint, concluding with a 5-month concrete action track designed to realize a 2-year ecosystem vision. Every participating team utilized directed funding allocations to bind these technical agendas into their home regional operational programs.
The foundational core summit, hosted on September 10 and 11, was masterfully facilitated by Mrs. Sumeera Shrestha. Delegates from multiple entities gathered to diagnose structural regional blockades and engineer shared mind-maps to deploy solutions at scale. The summit achieved a massive assembly of 26 primary partners, 5 enterprise organizations, and 21 regional engineering clubs and student micro-communities.
Following the central mapping event, these participating clubs organized localized sub-programs explicitly tailored to their regional constraints throughout September, October, November, and December. The collective will gather for a definitive closing summary assembly on February 11, matching parameters with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and Technology.
To date, 22 targeted regional programs have already run successfully across the collective network. Operational tracking estimates show the campaign is directly on track to reach 3,000+ individuals—the vast majority consisting of women, non-binary individuals, queer tech spaces, and public school tech pipelines.