Women 3.0, Taking On The Good Ol’ Boys in Tech With Style
Tech companies employ an average of 12.33 percent women engineers. The numbers for executives are even worse. As Reuters reported, “9 percent of U.S. Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are female, down...
View ArticleHow The Meritocracy Myth Affects Women In Technology
If the people solving tech problems are mainly white, male and privileged, then what problems aren’t they solving? Should one of the most influential forces of the global economy be driven by only the...
View ArticleHow Mentoring May Be the Key to Solving Tech’s Women Problem
One of the difficulties with keeping women in technology is that there are few female mentors for them to look to. Why is that? Well, the numbers will tell you. Only eight percent of CIOs in the U.S....
View ArticleThese Women Are Building The Software That Quietly Runs The World
Despite these sad statistics, it is absolutely possible for a woman in the field to go far and have a fabulous career. So we asked the Linux Foundation, the granddaddy of all open-source projects, to...
View ArticleStartup Zendesk Sets An Example For The Tech Industry And Appoints Three...
Sheryl Sandberg would be proud of enterprise startup Zendesk. Earlier this week, the company announced three new board members, all of them women. [ via Business Insider ]
View ArticleCoding for women: could I learn to program in a day?
Only 17% of the UK’s tech jobs are held by women, and in engineering, it’s even worse: just 8%, according to the ONS. Yet girls drop out of computer science well before they leave school. One study...
View ArticleSTEMinist Profile: Martina Simicic, Software engineer
Martina Simicic Software engineer Inspire What inspired you to pursue a career in STEM? I was always good at math but when choosing college I decided to go for Business Informatics. I finished it and...
View ArticleWill the Women in Tech Please Stand Up?
Unless you’ve been living under an internet-less rock for the last few months, you’ve probably noticed the huge increase in attention that the tech gender gap has gotten recently. The latest conclusion...
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STEMinist Profile: Jennifer Davis, Vice President of Marketing and Product...
Jennifer Davis Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy at Planar Systems Planar Systems What inspired you to pursue a career in STEM? I pursued a degree in the liberal arts, studying history...
View ArticleSTEMinist Profile: Madhumalti Sharma, Founder and President, European Program...
Madhumalti Sharma Founder and President, European Program Manager Workshop4Me a.s.b.l, Montrium What inspired you to pursue a career in STEM? I always loved technology and computers. When I started in...
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