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 [...]
Posts Tagged "Women in Tech"
Engineering Romance At Zoosk – Meet 4 Women In Tech
February 13, 2013 – 2:20 pm
This Friday, join Women 2.0 for Founder Friday San Francisco at Zoosk’s office in San Francisco – hosted by Ruchi Sanghvi (Co-Founder, Cove – acquired by Dropbox) along with special guest Beth Budwig (UX Manager, Zoosk). By Kristin Bradley (UI Developer, Zoosk) “A Zoosk engineer promised me I would learn more in my first year [...]
Do We Have to Give Up Our Femininity?
February 6, 2013 – 8:00 am
I do love video games, hate shopping, love the color pink, could talk about software product design and development all day, and am obsessed with anything that sparkles, but I’ve been unintentionally hiding that side of me that loves shoes and the color pink. By Samihah Azim (Founder & CEO, GleeBox) I recently had a [...]
Why Have A Woman/Tech Blog?
November 27, 2012 – 10:00 am
I bring a different perspective as a female, and my ability to inject a refreshing dose of estrogen to an otherwise testosterone-heavy workplace is usually welcomed. By Audrey Melnik (Founder & Developer, WotWentWrong) I’m a huge fan of the TV show Mad Men. What originally attracted me to it was its irreverence and how effectively [...]
Join Us For A Women In Tech Panel At Zendesk (October 18)
October 9, 2012 – 8:00 am
October is “Innovation Month” in the city of San Francisco. By Sepideh Nasiri (Vice President of All Things Offline, Women 2.0) The San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation launched an initiative to spotlight organizations and entrepreneurs that make up today’s generation of innovators. As part of this initiative, Zendesk will be hosting a lively [...]
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 [...]
A Letter For New Engineers: You Will Be Different And That’s OK
September 11, 2012 – 1:28 pm
If you are a young girl in tech, realize that you will be different, accept that, but don’t expect others to change for you. By Frances Advincula (Software Engineer, Accenture) I was at a party my Filipino family friends threw for my twenty-first birthday last weekend when one of the younger kids asked me how [...]
Women Heroes In Tech: The Best Kept Secrets Of Silicon Valley
July 24, 2012 – 1:00 pm
I seek to widen the pool of female heroes in tech. They might not have a huge PR machine behind them, but these women have truly made their mark on the professional landscape in Silicon Valley. By Marilyn Nagel (CEO, Watermark) If you Google “women in tech,” it’s likely that the same 5-10 women will [...]
Make An iOS App In 48 Hours At iOSDevCamp 2012 (July 20-22)
July 5, 2012 – 9:00 am
eBay’s women in tech group is sponsoring tickets to women who enjoy coding or designing iOS apps. By Jennifer Holmes (Organizer, iOSDevCamp 2012) “Women in Tech” could mean a variety of different women, from the serious coder to the UI designer to the CEO. Although occasionally women are in short supply in the engineering department, [...]
Gender In Tech: No Longer A Silent Issue
May 23, 2012 – 7:00 am
Ellen Pao’s lawsuit allows our community to discuss these “women in tech” issues as real problems. By Cristina Cordova (Business Development, Pulse) TechCrunch reported that Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao sued her firm for gender and sexual discrimination. A friend immediately told me “Well that’s career suicide” and I can’t say I didn’t think the [...]
