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Pushpa Ithal may not fit the stereotype of the typical Silicon Valley CEO. She’s female, foreign-born and a mother. Nevertheless, she’s one of the many foreign-born women with thriving technology careers in Silicon Valley, where companies are increasingly relying on workers like her. Silicon Valley is known for entire world about like creating, building great products that millions of people, hundreds of millions people use it.
Silicon Valley, the global center for high-tech innovation could be renamed immigrant Valley. It is fueled by foreign-born workers, many of whom are from humble roots and having worked so hard to get here. Many have ambitions beyond their day jobs. Do you want to take this risk and move to a start-up? Hey, you know what I came here all the way. Let’s risk it that drives like everything.
In computer science jobs, people born outside the United States make up almost 70% of those in their prime working years. That’s especially to for women- nearly 80% of women in computer and math fields are foreign-born. Most are from India and China.

Countries like India and China where women, women’s roles are often very subservient. Silicon Valley offers a pathway out. Engineering, in particular, is a pathway towards economic sustainability. Although the tech industry is still mostly male, more and more foreign-born women are finding success here and are rapidly promoted.
Lingling Shi born in China self-studying technology as her ticket to success in the US, Computer science, I mean most of us feel like it’s easier to apply green cards. It’s not my main anxious. I’ll be honest. Family life is one way that foreign-born women in tech are different than their American counterparts. Despite their demanding careers, they are almost twice as likely to be married and also much more likely to have children. I think to, to Chinese feminists, in most important, they will never accept no matter how successful like, my parents will not be happy, like oh, you have VP of engineer now but you don’t have kids.
Women in India and in China under a set of cultural expectations and norms that they will have a family right away and they will excel in their careers. These women are really kind of super women in terms of the tasks that they take on.
But that parental pressure also comes with perks. Typically for Asian family like parents will be here when the time you’re about to deliver the baby then they will be here for like half a year, one-year.
Support like that can make a real difference. They will get to those leadership roles a lot more quickly than their American-born peers who don’t have the support that they need.
They may not be household names are on the covers of business magazines yet, but these immigrants are likely to be the talent fueling the next wave of tech innovation.
Dena Mitchell for VOA news San Jose California.