Interview
Vice president of intellectual property and litigation at Adobe, Dana Rao talks about the challenges of getting women into technology as electrical engineers, and the responsibilities of both organizations (and fathers) in making this happen.
I’m an electrical engineer by training and then became a patent lawyer. In patent law you need to have a technical degree before obtaining your law degree, and so, even though I’m in the legal field, I see first-hand the diversity issues that tech companies are facing. The pool of diverse candidates in the engineering space is smaller than it should be, and so the pool in patent law is even smaller.
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