Who said Pakistani women can’t get to the top? These two Pakistani womenshow that hard work and resilience pays off if you are determined enough tonever back down. Faiza Yousuf link and Muazma Zahid link have proven inthe international WomenTech Global Awards 2020link Pakistaniwomen can do everything that others can do and they can do it better.

Faiza Yousuf is the founder of WomenInTechlinkcofounder of CodeGirls Karachi and she has secured the gold medal for theprestigious WomenInTech Ally Award for 2020. This award is given once ayear to three honorees for their outstanding achievements as an Ally tominorities in tech. She is a top rated freelancer with the honor to be partof Upwork’s first-ever social impact report.

She is also working with P@SHA’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee forimproving gender parity in Pakistan’s tech ecosystem. She was also a partof the roundtable on ‘Future of Worklink’ at#021Disrupt 2020.

Muazma Zahid, who is the Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, hasbagged the silver medal for the WomenInTech Mentor Award for 2020. She isalso the President of Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC), Seattle ChapterLead for AnitaB.org, and the Lead at WomenWhoCode.

Her list of achievements seems to go on and on. She has been invited as akeynote speaker for Inpsiro 2020, GDGFest 2020, Spectra 4.0, WTQ 2020, andthese are just some of the ones from 2020 alone.

Upon winning the award, she tweeted, “*Mentoring is highly rewarding andthe key to career success, and over the years, it is essential forprofessional and personal growth. I am very blessed to have a strongnetwork of mentors and allies in my career and strongly believe that everyone of us can uplift, guide, and help others!”*