A senior in CS at Stanford looks into why relatively few girls get interested in her field and finds that the stories we tell about tech are a big part of the problem. So how do we change the narrative? She has a few ideas. By Sarah Sterman (Senior in CS, Stanford) Over the last [...]
Posts Tagged "Girls in Tech"
3 Ways To Get Girls into Tech
May 28, 2013 – 9:00 am
Think tech is still a ‘man’s world’? Sadly, you’re not wrong, although more and more women are joining the ranks. What kinds of obstacles face girls trying to break into tech and what can be done to overcome them? By Tiffany Crawford (Founder & Creator, IGNITEHer NY) There’s a lot of hype around getting young girls [...]
Because Knowing How to Code Isn’t Always Enough
March 20, 2013 – 10:00 am
Women engineers entering the field now are definitely in a better support system. By Sujata Menon (Java Developer, Marqeta) For a woman in tech today, there are quite a few resources out there to help one advance technically and professionally. This was not the case even 5 years ago. Being the lone woman engineer in [...]
2013: The Year Of The Female Entrepreneur?
December 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
It is no surprise then that four of the major global consumer tech businesses – Facebook, Groupon, Zynga and Twitter – have more female customers than male. However, each suffers from a lack of female representation at board level, and this is true throughout the business world. By Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit) [...]
How TechGirlz Got Started: Showing Girls What Tech Can Offer
August 24, 2012 – 10:00 am
In 1987, 42% of software developers in America were women. In the 1990s, those numbers dropped. By Tracey Welson-Rossman (Founder, TechGirlz) TechGirlz was born out of curiosity. After spending the first part of my career working with mostly women in both the childcare and healthcare industries, I moved into the information technology consulting space as [...]
Fostering More Female Tech Entrepreneurs
August 25, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Ellen Lee (Contributing Writer, Intuit Blog) When it comes to women working in Silicon Valley technology businesses -— particularly women at the helm — the numbers remain painfully small. Less than 5 percent of tech startups are founded by female entrepreneurs, estimates Shaherose Charania, co-founder and CEO of Women 2.0, an organization that helps [...]
Bringing the Women 2.0 Revolution to SXSW 2012 – Please Vote!
August 16, 2011 – 6:35 am
By Veronika Sonsev (Founder & CEO, InSparq) The tech industry has traditionally been a boys’ club — women have been under represented as developers, founders and c-level executives. However, thanks to traditional and social media, a network of loosely associated groups (Women 2.0, Change the Ratio, RailsBridge, Girls in Tech, Women in Wireless, etc.) and [...]
Why Women Need to Be At Tech Conferences
July 27, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Melissa Fudor (Program Manager, Women in Wireless) I have to admit I was a little shocked after initially reading this article titled “Why Women Shouldn’t Go to Tech Conferences” (can you blame me?) featured on Forbes Woman. The article followed Susannah Breslin who was asked to speak on a women-panel about how to make [...]
Why Should We Increase Women’s Participation in Technology, and How To Start Coding
July 5, 2011 – 3:00 pm
By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder & Front-End Developer, Balance Media) A week ago, I read a letter to the editor in the New York Times penned by Dr. Jane Margolis, a researcher at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. In her letter, Dr. Margolis expressed the importance of continuing to support the participation [...]
