By Meredith Lepore (Contributor, The Grindstone) “If you want to be respected in tech as a woman, don’t call yourself a girl. See if we start referring to all the women who work in tech as women, then we will have a lot more women when we get rid of the girls. And when I [...]
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Hot Topic on Reddit: XX Chromosome Equals Lower Pay
November 30, 2011 – 10:58 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) How’s this for an opening line: “I work for a large multinational tech company, I regularly hire woman for 65% to 75% of what males make. I am sick of it, here is why it happens, and how you can avoid it.” The hot topic on Reddit [...]
Women and Mentoring in the U.S. (LinkedIn Infographic)
October 26, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Nicole Williams (Connection Director, LinkedIn) LinkedIn’s latest study found (in a survey of nearly 1,000 female professionals in the U.S.) that 82% of women agree that having a mentor is important. But what will knock your socks off is that considering the competitive employment landscape, and the universal belief that mentorship is a critical [...]
Foodspotting Founder and CEO Alexa Andrzejewski Virtually Only Woman Onstage at Facebook Developer Conference
September 23, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the space recently occupied by TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook developer and press conference f8 featured a keynote by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the new Facebook Timeline. Foodspotting, founded by Alexa Andrzejewski, was prominently featured in Zuckerberg’s keynote onstage at f8. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweets no [...]
A Pink Collar Tech Ghetto?
September 15, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere) Jolie O’Dell, who is one of my favorite people in the world tweeted something yesterday that got the women of the tech world (and many men) up in arms. It also ignited quite a lively backchannel conversation amongst the various women in tech groups I’m part of. The [...]
