Tech tales - Women sparking change at MWC
Durada: 21 min
08/03/2025
One of the UN's 17 goals for sustainable development is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. To coincide with International Women's Day on March 8, we dedicate an episode of Filling the Sink to female entrepreneurs, particularly those in traditionally male-dominated fields such as technology. Lea Beliaeva Bander visits MWC to meet some of the businesswomen who have created startups in Catalonia. At the 4YFN pavilion, she talks to five female entrepreneurs to gain different perspectives on the challenges faced by women in business. We meet Maja Završnik, CMO and co-founder of the educational platform SheAI and host Beth Cohen analyses the statistics surrounding female startups in Catalonia. Our Catalan phrase of the week is 'buscar una agulla en un paller' - to look for a needle in a haystack. Which we felt like, when looking for female founders at the 2025 MWC in Barcelona.