Research shows there’s disconnect in the pipeline that funnels women to tech and it happens very early on. It turns out that 74% of girls actually express interest in technology in middle school, but only 0.3% of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
From author Sarah Nadav “All the data that we have shows that he is right about this. Diverse teams do better- that includes race and gender. Investors need to put their money in teams that […]
President Obama in his State of the Union said “In the coming years, we should build on that progress, by … offering every student the hands-on computer science and math classes that make them job-ready […]
“Having arrived here with a successful track record in media and investment banking, I was surprised to be told by my first tech boss that I “scared the secretaries” on my second day at work. […]
Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn’t always been this way. A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number […]
Many tech industry leaders are actively seeking to add diversity to their companies because they are compelled by the data that diversity will give them a competitive advantage. Research shows that diverse teams are more creative, enhance […]
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