The numbers of women in tech are plummeting: women were 35% of CS majors in 1985, but only 18% today. Women are missing out on high-impact, flexible, well-paid, and exciting careers, and the industry is missing out […]
The National Center for Women and Information Technology shows Black and Latina women make up only 1 to 3 percent of the computing workforce. Dr. Kimberly Scott is associate professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department […]
Leena Gade became interested in engineering when she was 9 years old. Now, Leena Gade is the race engineer for Audi Sport. She oversees the mechanics and engineers, and she’s on the radio talking the […]
The 22-year-old graduated from MIT with a perfect score of 5.0 and is now a Harvard Ph.D candidate, where she studies space-time and black holes. The young Latina is exploring some of the most complex […]
Twitter COO Adam Bain says companies that are focused on inclusion perform better. He shared his thoughts in HeForShe’s first gender parity report, published on Friday to coincide with the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting […]
Writer Mandela Schumacher-Hodge attended #TechInclusion15 http://techinclusion.co. “A new conference — one I just left about an hour ago — was different. In fact, it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Over the past two days, 350 conference attendees and 500 […]
In a project titled “Before and After”, Esther Honig sparked a global conversation on beauty ideals. The results were both positive and negative, and may have left more questions than it answered. Recorded at TEDxVancouver […]
Think Big Foundation and Cisco launched SensED – a project-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education program for middle and high school students – in September with a pilot kickoff at Think Big’s innovation center in […]
“You know a lot of musicians of color get pigeon-holed into jazz and hip-hop and all these things. It’s a big stereotype,” said Marlon. “A lot of people think there are not any musicians of color […]
Silicon Valley, the home of the California tech industry, has long been criticized for its lack of diversity. Almost two years after major companies, led by Google and Intel, started to publicize their diversity numbers, […]
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