One suggestion from the American Association of University Professors is “aggressively promoting qualified women to science advisory boards, science journal editorial boards, and science policy positions.” By Melissa Llarena (CEO & Founder, Career Outcomes Matter) It’s ridiculous that the same issues Nobel laureate Marie Curie confronted at the turn of the 19th century continue to [...]
Posts Tagged "STEM"
How to Get Kids Interested in Technology with Activities, Games and More
April 3, 2013 – 9:00 am
Fun apps, shows and toys are available for kids to learn to code. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With the success of young programmers like Mark Zuckerberg who started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, parents are encouraging their kids to learn to code at a younger age. Now parents can encourage [...]
Why STEM Careers Are Awesome for Women (Infographic)
March 29, 2013 – 6:00 am
Techschool rounds up statistics on why careers in science, tech, engineering and math are a great choice for women. Now all we need is more girls to pursue them. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Everybody knows it’s a rough job market out there, and it’s just as widely understood that tech careers are a [...]
Connecting Everyone To Tech Skills And Opportunities
February 5, 2013 – 7:00 am
Today, we’re launching Round 2 of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, with the aspiration of turning it into an engine that helps advance tech opportunity for all. By Valerie Jarrett (Sr. Advisor, White House) & Todd Park (US Chief Technology Officer, White House) President Obama has always believed that innovation is key to growing our [...]
5 Inspirational Stories Of Girls In STEM – Or “STEEM” – Fundraising For Good
December 14, 2012 – 6:00 am
It’s exciting to see the movement to support girls in STEM steadily growing across the country. Being a female founder from the Silicon Valley, I hope the emphasis on “STEM” one day becomes “STEEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Math). By Andrea Lo (Co-Founder & CEO, Piggybackr) I started my own company, Piggybackr, in late [...]
Join The Ada Initiative And Wikimedia Foundation For Ada Lovelace Day (October 16 In San Francisco)
October 12, 2012 – 2:17 pm
If you want to do a little group blogging or editing Wikipedia about your favorite woman in STEM, feel free to bring your laptops! By Valerie Aurora (Co-Founder & Executive Director, Ada Initiative) You are invited to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day with the Ada Initiative and Wikimedia Foundation on October 16 from 5pm to 8pm [...]
10 Tips For Leveraging Technology To Improve Women’s Lives In The Developing World (Day 2, Grace Hopper Celebration)
October 4, 2012 – 8:17 am
Considerations for designing technology for developing countries. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Speaking at Grace Hopper Celebration, Ann Mei Chang talked about developing mobile apps for women in developing countries. She is a Senior Advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the US Department of [...]
Today’s High School Girls Are Tomorrow’s Mobile App Inventors
April 26, 2012 – 2:13 pm
Watch the top 11 teams of high school girls pitch their Android apps and business plans to investors on May 3 in Santa Clara at the Technovation Challenge National Pitch Night. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) What would the next generation of high school girls build if given the chance to build [...]
“Black Girls Code” Brings More Women of Color to Silicon Valley
November 18, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Kiratiana Freelon (Contributor, Loop 21) If black girls can rock and black girls can travel then they can surely code, right? The statistics show otherwise. Women of color represent less than 3% of the people in technology fields. But if it’s up to Kimberly Bryant, pretty soon tons of black (and brown) girls will [...]
NPR Morning Edition Addresses Shortage of Women in Tech
November 11, 2011 – 11:20 am
By Wendy Kaufman (Correspondant, NPR) Editor’s note: Listen to the story on NPR’s Morning Edition here. This week, thousands of women gathered in Portland, Ore., for the Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest technical conference for women and computing. High-tech companies are hiring, but there aren’t nearly enough women to meet the demand. It’s no [...]
