We’ve cherry-picked the top 5 tips and tricks for male advocates for women in tech, educated by NCWIT’s 45 in-depth interviews with male employees in technology organizations or departments. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The LGBT community have many allies. Conferences produced by an organization named Black Founders are incredibly ethnically and [...]
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5 Girl Coders Under 21 To Watch
April 17, 2013 – 8:00 am
Girls may still make up a smaller percentage of women in tech than they should, but these up-and-coming female coders are aiming to ensure women have an outsized impact on the industry. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Young women may be dominating on college campuses and out-earning men in some cities but in the [...]
How To Employ Women In The Tech Industry
September 13, 2012 – 7:00 am
Women currently in tech are leaving the industry in droves. By Michal Tsur (Co-Founder & President, Kaltura) As the burgeoning tech industry continues to do its part to create jobs in a struggling U.S. economy, a major portion of the population has been mostly left out of the tech boom. Despite playing an early role [...]
“Sit With Me” Campaign Taking Place February 14 (Photoshoot)
February 2, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Above: Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook with the red chair. Below: Wild Frog Studio co-founder Rodica Ceslor in the red chair. Facebook had a red chair at their Silicon Valley headquarters and invited people to stop by and have a seat. Over 80 Facebook employees had their pictures [...]
Sheryl Sandberg’s GHC 2011 Keynote: More Pearls of Wisdom
November 17, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Baat Enosh (VP Operations, Founder Labs) For the past 4 years, I’ve been living and breathing “Women In Tech” conversations. I’ve been working with Women 2.0, Founder Labs, and the National Center for Women & IT, focusing on getting more women to get into computing and found startups. The conversation is complex and at [...]
Tech is Really a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
August 11, 2011 – 11:30 am
By Linda Forrest (Associate, Francis Moran & Associates) Reading a recent post about the role formal education plays in entrepreneurship, I was reminded of an article I read a few months ago about the “real reason women quit engineering.” In Stemming The Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering, two University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors report on their [...]
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 [...]
Female Startup Founders, Female CTOs And Technical Co-Founders (Oh My!)
May 24, 2011 – 1:28 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Julia Hu (Co-Founder & CEO of Lark) got engaged while presenting her startup onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC — her boyfriend inserted a proposal slide into her deck. Meanwhile, attendees at the National Center for Women in Technology annual summit were [...]
