A treasure trove of tips, predictions and insight from the conference’s keynote speaker, Marc Andreessen, in conversation with Ruchi Sanghvi, co-founder of Cove and first female engineer at Facebook. by Salem Kimble (Manager, Online Strategies, BetterWorld Telecom) Women 2.0 is leading the charge in the world of technology for connecting women with opportunity and each other. But [...]
Posts Tagged "Jocelyn Goldfein"
Is It Too Cold to “Lean In”? Women In STEM
April 13, 2013 – 2:56 pm
Etsy CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea: “There’s a decent chance, based on their experience in industry, that your workplace is going to suck” for women, making it hard to recruit women and increase diversity. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) & Katherine Ullman (Program Associate, Center for WorkLife Law) It’s been a rough couple [...]
Submit Your Best Idea For The Equal Futures App Challenge By January 19
January 7, 2013 – 6:00 am
Individuals/teams can submit their app on equalfutures.challenge.gov until January 19th, 2013 at 12:00am (EST). By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last year, President Obama announced at the UN General Assembly the Equal Futures Partnership, launched to increase women’s political participation and economic empowerment. Participating countries vow to to expand opportunities for women and [...]
Women In Tech Like Working For Other Women In Tech
October 25, 2012 – 9:30 am
Research shows that women gravitate toward women-led companies. By Blake Landau (Founder, Artemis) Get Satisfaction Vice President of Marketing Azita Martin never realized she was the only woman in the room, until she wasn’t. “Now that I’m here at Get Satisfaction, I realize how refreshing it is. You don’t realize how weird being the only [...]
(Infographic) Ada Lovelace Day Celebrates Women Leaders In Tech
October 16, 2012 – 3:00 am
The goal of Ada Lovelace Day is to create new role models for girls and women in these male-dominated fields by raising the profile of other women in STEM. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today is Ada Lovelace Day – October 16, 2012 is about blogging and sharing stories of women, from [...]
Sheryl Sandberg Explains Why Younger Women Should Pursue Tech Careers
October 8, 2012 – 2:00 pm
Facebook leaders Sheryl Sandberg and Jocelyn Goldfein share advice. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The most influential woman in tech right now, Sheryl Sandberg, outlined some clues for younger women searching for a career or job in today’s economy. In a post to Quora last week, she gave three pieces of advice [...]
Facebook Engineering: Announcing The Grace Hopper Scholarship
August 27, 2012 – 6:00 am
The Facebook scholarship awards women excelling in computer science with the chance to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference from October 3-6, 2012. By Jocelyn Goldfein (Director of Engineering, Facebook) This fall, we’ll join hundreds of remarkable women in technology in Baltimore, Maryland for our fifth year at the Grace Hopper [...]
Pissed Off For Greatness
August 15, 2012 – 6:00 am
“If you ain’t pissed off for greatness, that means you’re okay with being mediocre.” – Ray Lewis By Ellora Israni (Co-Founder, she++) It’s extremely hard to sit down and write a blog post when you’re not entirely sure that what you have to say is interesting or relevant or even remotely helpful to the rest [...]
What I Learned At Facebook’s Girl Geek Dinner
July 17, 2012 – 8:42 am
Women at Facebook shared tips on everything from returning to work from a pregnancy leave, to integrating your career with your children’s lives. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Less than a week after Facebook’s IPO, a panel of women at Facebook were assembled to answer questions from the attendees of a Bay [...]
The Male Geek Is Not The Only Image Of Success In The Tech World
June 11, 2012 – 6:00 am
It’s a fact that women are lagging behind men in one of the few areas of the economy where there’s growth in well-paying jobs. By Laura Sydell (Contributor, Ms.) In fact, despite the image that it’s geeky guys doing the inventing, if you use the Internet at all, you probably use a product developed by [...]
