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Outsight becomes Becomtech official partner

Outsight has partnered with Becomtech, a national organization for girls and women in technology, to promote digital diversity.

Women are underrepresented in the IT and digital industries. Even though women make up 33% of IT and digital workers in 2018, most of them (84%) work in “support roles” like HR, marketing, and communication. Only 16% of these women work in technical positions like operations, development, production, and project management (1).

Furthermore, girls make up 56% of general education students but only 14% of those who specialize in “digital and computer science” and 13% of those who specialize in “engineering sciences” (2).

In an effort to promote diversity in the digital space, Outsight, a leading provider of Spatial Intelligence software solutions, has entered into a partnership agreement with Becomtech, a national organization for girls and women in technology founded in 2017.

About the partnership

Becomtech aims to increase the representation of women in technology by promoting gender equality and diversity in the IT and digital fields. It achieves this through various free, inclusive programs that utilize active learning methods and provide long-term support.

As a partner, Outsight will provide financial and operational support for Becomtech’s initiatives, such as the “JUMP IN TECH” program and the “AMBASSADORS BECOMTECH” program, among other collaborative efforts to empower women.

On the one hand, the “JUMP IN TECH” program aims to help girls between 14 and 17 years old discover digital careers, broaden their perspectives, and remove obstacles to their career choices. This program has two parts that happen every year. In schools, more than 1,400 girls take part in around 100 awareness-raising sessions about gender diversity in IT and the digital sector. In July, more than 120 teenage girls took part in nine face-to-face and online classes to learn about computer programming and digital communication. 75% of girls include digital in their career choices after JUMP IN TECH.

The “BECOMTECH AMBASSADORS” program, on the other hand, long-term supports the 435 JUMP IN TECH alumnae aged 15 to 25, in their digital technology desires and projects, giving them the power to act and build their career plans. The program is structured around three axes: group workshops, individual coaching, and a community of mutual support. The BECOMTECH Ambassadors have made more than 13,000 people aware of the challenges of gender equality in the digital sector.

Finally, Outsight is committed to donate Becomtech part of its hiring bonuses as well as to share its partnership experience and inspire other software companies to prioritize diversity issues.

  1. Data from 2018. Source: Becomtech
  2. Data from 2021. Source: Becomtech

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What percentage of women in tech actually work in engineering or development roles?

    According to Becomtech data from 2018, only 16% of women in the IT and digital workforce hold technical positions such as development, operations, production, or project management. The remaining 84% work in support functions including HR, marketing, and communications. This distribution helps explain why gender-diversity programs aimed at girls aged 14 to 17 focus specifically on exposing them to technical career paths rather than the industry overall.

  • Why do girls choose digital specializations at such low rates compared to general education?

    The gap opens at the secondary level. Girls represent 56% of general education students in France but only 14% of those who specialize in digital and computer science, and 13% of those in engineering sciences, according to 2021 Becomtech data. Research on pipeline gaps in STEM consistently identifies secondary school as the critical decision point, where cultural framing of technical subjects as male-coded steers girls away before they reach higher education or the labor market.

  • How does a B2B tech company actually structure a gender-diversity partnership beyond just writing a check?

    The Becomtech partnership model illustrates a three-layer structure: financial contribution (donating a portion of hiring bonuses), operational involvement (supporting programs directly), and advocacy (committing to share the partnership experience to encourage other software companies to prioritize diversity). Financial-only sponsorships rarely shift culture inside a company; the operational and advocacy layers are what connect external DEI commitments to internal hiring and retention practices.

  • What retention effect does a program like Jump in Tech have on girls' career intentions?

    Becomtech reports that 75% of girls who complete the Jump in Tech program subsequently include digital careers in their plans. The program combines in-school awareness sessions, reaching more than 1,400 participants across roughly 100 sessions per year, with face-to-face and online coding and digital-communication courses in July. The combination of broad reach and hands-on practice appears to be what shifts stated career intent rather than passive exposure alone.

  • How do ambassadors programs extend the impact of a short tech training program over time?

    Becomtech's Ambassadors program follows Jump in Tech alumni aged 15 to 25 through group workshops, individual coaching, and a peer community. Those 435 alumni have collectively reached more than 13,000 people with messaging on gender equality in tech. This multiplier effect is the structural argument for long-term alumni programs: trained participants become peer advocates, extending reach far beyond what the originating organization could achieve through direct programming alone.

  • What is Becomtech and when was it founded?

    Becomtech is a French national organization founded in 2017 to increase the representation of girls and women in IT and digital careers. It runs free, inclusive programs using active learning methods and provides long-term support across the education-to-career pipeline. Its programs operate at two levels: awareness campaigns inside secondary schools and sustained coaching for alumni navigating early career choices in technical fields.