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By Sharon Wrobel - November 24, 2022
A group of up to 30 women working in junior tech positions from Israel, Bahrain, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates are set to come together in January to participate in a Jerusalem-led program to help them break through the glass ceiling and take up managerial roles.
The three-month program led by FemForward, a Jerusalem nonprofit founded in 2020, aims to support women in junior tech positions with the tools and network to advance their career to senior levels. In collaboration with the UAE-Israel Business Council and funded by the US embassy in Israel, the junior-to-manager program will next year for the first time include women in tech from the Abraham Accords countries.
The initiative comes after Israel started to normalize ties with Gulf countries in 2020 as part of the US-brokered Abraham Accords with Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain.
Read More: Times of Israel