With the rise of coding bootcamps and MOOCs in the startup industrial complex, you would think it’s cool to be smart and geeky. However, leading women, girl geeks and smart, funny girls were hard to find in mainstream TV and movies until FEM-Inc started collecting them. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) San [...]
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Women To Watch: Why “Character” Matters
March 8, 2013 – 11:00 am
Popular entertainment lags behind the reality of women’s progress: only 16.3% of characters with STEM jobs in family films were women (none of them were main characters); in reality, women comprise 24% of the STEM labor force. By Rachel Payne (Founder & CEO, FEM Inc.) Today is International Women’s Day and March is women’s history [...]
