tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44827147231978978462024-03-14T02:17:51.754-04:00Women in Tech NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482714723197897846.post-18344754952468382692015-04-18T11:35:00.001-04:002015-04-18T11:35:01.298-04:00The US’s most marginalized are disrupting power structures by learning how to code<a href="http://qz.com/382041/the-uss-most-marginalized-are-disrupting-power-structures-by-learning-how-to-code">The US’s most marginalized are disrupting power structures by learning how to code</a>: <br /><br />
<div><div title="Pin this image to Pinterest. Right-click to turn-off this feature."></div><img alt="LGBT and other communities are using coding to get ahead." height="361" src="https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/rtr3wcrd.jpg?w=640" style="height: auto; max-width: 605px;" width="640" /></div>Teagan Widmer graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012 with a master’s degree in theatre pedagogy. Having struggled to find work with only a bachelor’s in English literature from Pacific Union College, she had hoped that her graduate degree might finally land her steady employment. It didn’t.<br /><br />
After graduation, Widmer moved back home to northern California. “I was working for a community benefit district in the downtown area of San Francisco,” Widmer tells Quartz. “I made $14.50 an hour. Most of that went to rent.”<br /><br />
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But it was in the tech-heavy Bay Area that Widmer discovered a skill that would change her life—she learned how to code, mainly through online tutorials. “Overall the process took one year,” Widmer says. “I did it pretty intensively; I didn’t do a lot else besides work and practice programming.”<br /><br />
The hard work paid off quickly.<br /><br />
With her newly procured coding skills, Widmer, a trans woman, began brainstorming ways she could help alleviate a <a href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Herman-Gendered-Restrooms-and-Minority-Stress-June-2013.pdf">common problem</a> in the transgender community: finding a public restroom to use without having to fear <a href="http://qz.com/374922/bathrooms-have-become-a-battleground-for-transgender-kids/">harm or discrimination</a>. Inspired to act, Widmer created <a href="http://www.refugerestrooms.org/">Restroom Refuge</a>, an app that already has identified close to 7,000 bathrooms that transgender and genderqueer people can use safely.<br /><br />
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Media coverage of the app put Widmer herself on the map, and helped her land an interview for an internship at <i><a href="https://www.futureadvisor.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=futureadvisor&utm_campaign=alpha-brand&utm_content=futureadvisor&gclid=CLqAlP7j9sQCFcRgfgodjQ8AVQ?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=futureadvisor&utm_campaign=alpha-brand&utm_content=futureadvisor&gclid=CLqAlP7j9sQCFcRgfgodjQ8AVQ">FutureAdvisor</a>,</i> an online investment manager. She got the position, which soon led to a full-time job at a salary of $90,000.<br /><br />
Just a year after learning to code, Widmer tells Quartz, “I’m a software engineer. I’m the point person for management as we plan the future of the product and schedule work for the developers to execute on.” Now, she says, “I’m doing things I thought I would never be able to do. I’m saving for retirement, I’m saving for surgery, and I’m making progress on my student loans.”<br /><br />
In the US, members of the LGBT community, <a href="http://www.lgbtmap.org/news/unfair-price-lgbt-women-release">especially LGBT women</a>, have higher rates of poverty than their straight counterparts. Widmer sees coding as one possible antidote.<br /><br />
“I have some ideas to turn Refuge into a bigger organization and maybe a nonprofit down the road,” she says. “But ultimately I’d like to fuse my love for teaching with my love for software engineering and help others learning to program—thereby economically empowering a generation of queer and trans folk.”<br /><br />
And she could be onto something.<br /><br />
Coding is already being used to help other marginalized communities around the world. In Indonesia, where <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/indonesia/overview">according to the World Bank</a> nearly half of all households “remain clustered around the national poverty line,” 90% of high school and university students want to learn to code “because they think coding is important for their future careers,” <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/indonesiarealtime/2015/03/31/indonesian-say-coding-is-the-future-now-how-do-they-do-it/">the Wall Street Journal reported</a> in March, citing a survey conducted by Microsoft. [U]ltimately I’d like to fuse my love for teaching with my love for software engineering and help others learning to program—thereby economically empowering a generation of queer and trans folk.<br /><br />
Coding workshops targeting the LGBT community, like the <a href="http://www.transhack.org/">TransH4ck</a> hackathon and speaker series and Mozilla’s <a href="http://lukasblakk.com/ascend-project-kickoff/">Project Ascend</a>, have similar aspirations for their intended audience. The organization Lesbians Who Tech <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellencushing/if-every-tech-conference-was-like-lesbians-who-tech-tech-wou">recently hosted a conference</a> that brought together 1,200 queer women from across the US. The event’s size is itself a testament to the growing number of LGBT people in the field.<br /><br />
A lot of people have found that learning to code makes them more marketable. To Widmer, it’s been more than that. “Learning to code changed my life,” she says.<br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Cisco, as part of the </span><a href="http://ieee-wie-ilc.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3d98c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2015 Women In Engineering International Leadership Conference</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"> partner community seeking to support and advance women in tech, will bring to life a lively study of innovation in SDN, cloud, Internet of Everything and DevNet with an all-female leadership panel at the second annual </span><a href="http://ieee-wie-ilc.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; 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About a week after a jury ruled against Ellen Pao in a gender discrimination case she brought against VC firm Kleiner Perkins, she's promising to continue fighting bias in Silicon Valley.<br /><br />
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"You need to work through these [gender] issues </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">because they are here and they’re not going to go away,</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">" </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/ellen-pao-says-gender-issues-wont-go-away-after-kleiner-trial-1428292861">Pao told the Wall Street Journal's Jeff Elder.</a><br /><br />
Pao, currently <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-resigns-2014-11">the interim CEO of Reddit</a>, says that even though the three years she spent embroiled in a legal battle were tough, her efforts were worth it. And she has a message for other women who feel they're hitting a glass ceiling in their industries: Have confidence and do not get discouraged.<br /><br />
"I would tell [another woman] to have confidence in herself, to know that what she’s doing is important, and to always remember not to let other people change her view of herself," Pao told Elder.<br /><br />
Pao first sued Kleiner Perkins for failing to promote her because she was a woman, and then for firing her in retaliation <em>after</em> she sued. Over the course of the legal proceedings, the defense put Pao's personality on trial just as much as her actions, digging into her private texts and emails, airing details of an affair with a KPCB partner, and ultimately characterizing her as "passive-aggressive, disloyal, and generally ineffective."<br /><br />
"It’s not my personality to be out there, and I’m also by nature a very private person, so for me it was a little bit scary," Pao said. "I’m glad I did it. But it was hard."<br /><br />
After the trial a group of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/thanks-ellen-pao-full-page-ad-in-palo-alto-daily-post-2015-3">female tech worked pooled together to place a full-page ad</a> in The Palo Alto Daily Post that read simply, "Thanks Ellen."<br /><br />
Pao says she's also received in-person support from other women who thanked her and described their own experiences with gender-based discrimination. The current status quo in Silicon Valley sees much fewer women than men in tech overall, but there's an even greater dearth of women in venture capital. That can <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ellen-pao-lost-but-it-doesnt-matter-2015-3">cause a "boys club"</a> mentality and a culture where women get criticized for either being too timid or too aggressive.<br /><br />
"You have this needle that you have to thread, and sometimes it feels like there’s no hole in the needle," Pao told Elder. "From what I’ve heard from women, they do feel like there’s no way to win. They can’t be aggressive and get this opportunity without being treated like they’ve done something wrong."<br /><br />
Moving forward, Pao plans to focus on her role at Reddit. Here are some of the changes she's made at the company so far:<br /><br />
<ul><li>Removed the salary negotiations from the hiring process, citing studies that women don't fare as well as men</li>
<li>Brought in diversity consultant Freada Kapor Klein to advise the company</li>
<li>Now asks every job candidate what they think about diversity. Any who doesn't support creating a racially diverse, gender-balanced team won't get hired. </li>
<li>Hired more community managers to monitor Reddit's consent and helping it craft new policies on user behavior, in the wake of the giant leak of nude celebrity photos that ran rampant on Reddit. Pao took over several months after the leak and has since also guided the site through banning "revenge porn." </li>
</ul><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-is-incredibly-white-and-male-2015-4">Silicon Valley is 'incredibly white and male' and there's a 'sort of pride' about that fact, says Silicon Valley culture reporter</a></strong><br /><br />
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<div><div title="Pin this image to Pinterest. Right-click to turn-off this feature."></div><img alt="Ellen-pao" src="http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE1LzA0LzA2L2IzL2VsbGVucGFvLmYzOTRlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn/e8922489/559/ellen-pao.jpg" style="height: auto; max-width: 584px;" /></div><div style="float: right; width: 50px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/share?via=Mashable&text=Reddit+CEO+Ellen+Pao%2C+feminist+hero%2C+eliminates+salary+negotiations+for+new+employees&src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2015%2F04%2F06%2Fellen-pao-reddit-salary%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_source%3Drss" style="margin: 10px;"><img alt="Feed-tw" src="http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/assets/feed-tw-c89a30ce10c5caefd66a400b7c597235.jpg" style="height: auto; max-width: 584px;" /></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2015%2F04%2F06%2Fellen-pao-reddit-salary%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_source%3Drss&src=sp" style="margin: 10px;"><img alt="Feed-fb" src="http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/assets/feed-fb-fdab25e3700868c9621fb03b7fd07c38.jpg" style="height: auto; max-width: 584px;" /></a></div>Ellen Pao, the interim CEO of <a href="http://mashable.com/category/reddit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss">Reddit</a>, has seen women struggle with salary negotiations. So she's eliminating money talk from the company's hiring process<br /><br />
In her first interview since <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/03/27/ellen-pao-kleiner-perkins-verdict/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss">losing</a> the landmark Silicon Valley trial, Pao <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/04/06/ellen-pao-on-reaction-to-kleiner-case-workplace-sexism-and-running-reddit-qa/">told</a> <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> that she has eliminated salary negotiations from the hiring process at Reddit, where she currently serves as interim CEO<br /><br />
<div>See also: <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/03/29/ellen-pao-workplace-sexism/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss">Despite loss, Ellen Pao succeeded in calling out subtle sexism</a></div>The reason, according to Pao, is that women often can't win salary talks<br /><br />
"Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate. So as part of our recruiting process, we don’t negotiate with candidates," Pao said in the interview. "We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation." <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/04/06/ellen-pao-reddit-salary/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss">Read more...</a><br /><br />
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The post <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/04/powertofly/">Want More Women Working in Tech? Let Them Stay Home</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.wired.com/">WIRED</a>.<br /><br />
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I enjoyed doing research during my degree, but had no idea that it could be a career. When I was offered a job as a research assistant for a veterinary charity I was thrilled, and that was when I realised I wanted to be an epidemiologist. Since then I have worked on numerous research projects, done another Master’s degree and have just started my PhD in Public Health. So really, I am just at the beginning of my career!<br /><br />
<strong>What is the coolest project you have worked on and why?</strong>I like to think that all the research projects I have worked on, or have helped with have contributed to improving the health and welfare of the animal or human population in some way. However, I am most proud of my PhD project. I am part of a new Health Protection Research Unit, focusing on emerging zoonotic infections. As a PhD student, it’s great to be part of such a talented and supportive group and to be doing research in such an exciting area. The Institute of Infection and Global Health is also an Athena SWAN bronze award holder, so it’s the perfect environment for a young, female academic such as myself to be working in.<br /><br />
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<div><div title="Pin this image to Pinterest. Right-click to turn-off this feature."></div><img alt="Victory from defeat." height="359" src="https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/rtr4v7t5.jpg?w=640" style="height: auto; max-width: 584px;" width="640" /></div>On Mar. 27, Ellen Pao <a href="http://qz.com/371926/ellen-pao-has-lost-her-historic-gender-discrimination-case-against-kleiner-perkins-on-all-counts/">lost her gender discrimination trial</a> against her former employer, high-profile venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. While the court may have ruled against her, it’s important not to lose sight of how important this case is in a broader context.<br /><br />
Despite its outsized impact on the US economy, the world of venture capitalists remains largely removed from scrutiny and accountability. Working women are sure to have recognized many of the episodes described in Pao’s case from personal experiences and experiences of their friends.<br /><br />
Yet despite the depressing familiarity, there are still few mechanisms to push for fairer treatment beyond a lawsuit.<br /><br />
Pao sued Kleiner Perkins, in part, to advance women in the clubby world of venture capital. “If I’ve helped to level the playing field for women and minorities in venture capital, then the battle was worth it,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/technology/ellen-pao-kleiner-perkins-case-decision.html">she said</a>. One could argue she sacrificed her right to privacy, allowed her life to be examined and picked over in open court in order to reveal how sexism operates in the plutocratic venture capital world and, by extension, Silicon Valley. Women really owe Ellen Pao a huge gratitude for taking such a public stance. <br /><br />
The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/magazine/whats-really-at-stake-in-ellen-paos-kleiner-perkins-lawsuit.html">details of the alleged discrimination</a> have been abundantly analyzed elsewhere, but some of the highlights include men-only ski trips and dinners, segregated so women wouldn’t “kill the buzz.” While a jury of her peers may have disagreed, these types of adolescent attitudes are a clear reflection of an industry that itself is in adolescence. Mix in what Pao argued was a lack of basic human-resource functions, and you have the perfect environment for discrimination.<br /><br />
The good news is, Ellen Pao’s sacrifice may not ultimately have been made in vain. Newly filed gender discrimination lawsuits against Facebook and Twitter suggest her lawsuit may serve as a catalyst for women who realize their gender is holding them back.<br /><br />
Interestingly, American corporations might be wise to learn from their foreign competitions. Outside the US, some countries are taking a much more aggressive stance to advance women, indicating an increased awareness of the important role female leadership has to play in greater economic growth and lower economic volatility. On Mar. 6, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/europe/german-law-requires-more-women-on-corporate-boards.html?_r=0">Germany passed legislation</a> requiring its largest companies to fill at least 30 percent of board seats with women by next year. This quota will rise to 50 percent in 2018.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482714723197897846.post-73069210495945385532015-04-03T09:18:00.001-04:002015-04-03T09:18:19.692-04:00Special Section: Female-Run Venture Capital Funds Alter the Status Quo<a href="http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640387/s/4503ba17/sc/38/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C0A40C0A20Cbusiness0Cdealbook0Cfemale0Erun0Eventure0Efunds0Ealter0Ethe0Estatus0Equo0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm">Special Section: Female-Run Venture Capital Funds Alter the Status Quo</a>: A number of new investment firms started by women are bringing fresh perspectives, and funding appetites, to a field long dominated by men.<img alt="mf.gif" src="http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640387/s/4503ba17/sc/38/mf.gif" height="1" style="height: auto; max-width: 584px;" width="1" /><br /><br />
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Insight from Melonie Wise, Tessa Lau, Cynthia Breazeal, and Louise Poubel<br /><br />
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<a href="https://girlswhocode.com/">Girls Who Code</a>, a program that promotes more participation by women in computer science programs and careers, started modestly in New York City in 2012. Recently, however, the organization founded by Reshma Saujani has seen some pretty incredible growth, according to its <a href="http://girlswhocode.com/2014report/">2014 year end report</a>.<br />
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Since its inception, the nonprofit has given more than 3,000 high school-aged girls computer coding instruction, with a goal of helping them develop functional code-based products, such as mobile video games and other software applications. The organization has also expanded its programs to 24 cities and seen a huge jump in the number of girls participating in its programs from 2013 to 2014. Starting in 2012 with 20 students, Girls Who Code’s two-week Summer Immersion program had 152 participants in 2013 and 375 in 2014. Its after-school club programs are even more popular; in 2014, close to 2,200 girls took part in the the after school program, up from 600 participants the year before.<br />
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<div><div title="Pin this image to Pinterest. Right-click to turn-off this feature."></div><img alt="MAR15_24_538891873.jpg" src="https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/2015/03/MAR15_24_538891873.jpg" style="height: auto; max-width: 584px;" title="MAR15_24_538891873" /><br /><br />
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When PBS MediaShift began planning the bi-coastal <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/hack-the-gender-gap-a-womens-hackathon-on-wearables-at-wvu/">“Hack the Gender Gap”</a> event with WVU’s Reed College of Media, we knew this would be a complex undertaking. A women’s panel at Google HQ in Mountain View, Calif. with top tech and media people in attendance? Check. A women’s hackathon on wearables at WVU focused on female college students, faculty and pros? Check. But could we bring them together?<br /><br />
With the magic of Google Hangouts on Air, we were able to have a panel of top women discuss current issues as well as how they had succeeded, with students at WVU watching, being inspired and asking questions. The entire weekend event, from Oct. 24 to 26, was a huge success not only because of the great participation and smart ideas at the Hackathon — but because it showed just how powerful women can be when given the space and time to show their skills.<br /><br />
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When PBS MediaShift began planning the bi-coastal <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/hack-the-gender-gap-a-womens-hackathon-on-wearables-at-wvu/">“Hack the Gender Gap”</a> event with WVU’s Reed College of Media, we knew this would be a complex undertaking. A women’s panel at Google HQ in Mountain View, Calif. with top tech and media people in attendance? Check. A women’s hackathon on wearables at WVU focused on female college students, faculty and pros? Check. But could we bring them together?<br /><br />
With the magic of Google Hangouts on Air, we were able to have a panel of top women discuss current issues as well as how they had succeeded, with students at WVU watching, being inspired and asking questions. The entire weekend event, from Oct. 24 to 26, was a huge success not only because of the great participation and smart ideas at the Hackathon — but because it showed just how powerful women can be when given the space and time to show their skills.<br /><br />
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At the Women of OpenStack working breakfast this week at <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/">OpenStack Summit Paris</a>, women got together to share their experiences, support each other and discuss ways to increase the number of women involved in OpenStack. Currently, only about 10 percent of OpenStack Summit attendees are women.<br /><br />
One way to get more women involved in OpenStack is through communication with the community about upcoming events and the roles women play in OpenStack and technology.<br /><br />
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In <a href="http://youtu.be/lhB1dqpH_ro">the video above</a>, we hear from some of the Women of OpenStack.<br /><br />
<em>Check out <a href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/tag/paris/">more coverage from OpenStack Summit Paris</a>.</em><br /><br />
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2. the rise of a “gamification culture” that put heavy emphasis on “killing people and killing monsters.” Boys may like such on-screen diversions, but, as Hennessy noted, “it’s not what girls found attractive.” That problem may be fixing itself, he suggested, as computers now provide a gateway to social media, with high levels of engagement by girls.<br />
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3. the “isolation effect” at universities, particularly for students who end up being the only woman in a tough math or science course of 30 people. In such situations, a woman getting a disappointing B or C may become discouraged and lack any peer encouragement to bounce back. His remedy: better support networks for female students.</div>
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How many U.S. companies have at least one female executive on staff? According to a new report from marketing-data company Infogroup Targeting Solutions, a mere 27 percent fit that description.<br /><br />
The one region bucking that trend is the San Francisco Bay Area, where Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Emeryville all boast higher percentages of women executives. “Silicon Valley is actually faring really well [in] comparison to the balance of the U.S.,” Andrea Haldeman, Infogroup’s senior vice president of sales, <a href="http://fortune.com/2014/10/27/infogroup-study-female-executives/">told Fortune magazine</a>. The study looked at companies with at least 10 employees, in cities with at least 100 companies.<br /><br />
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Among the nation’s tech giants, women still make up a minority of employees. Earlier this year, <a href="http://www.dice.com/jobsearch/company/DiceId_yahoo/yahoo/?icid=dicenewsEC">Yahoo</a>, Google, Facebook, and other firms all released diversity reports that suggested men make up the substantial majority of their respective corporate ranks. At Yahoo, for example, women <a href="http://news.dice.com/2014/06/18/yahoos-diversity-report-shows-lack-women-tech-leader-roles/">constituted 37 percent</a> of the company’s global workforce; at Google, <a href="http://news.dice.com/2014/05/29/googles-workforce-reflects-techs-diversity-challenge/">the number was 30 percent</a>.<br /><br />
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<strong>NAIROBI, Kenya — Nov. 3, 2014 —</strong> Over 150 female graduate students from 24 universities across Kenya have been selected for the EmployMentor programme starting Monday. The programme is a partnership between Microsoft Corp., its 4Afrika Initiative and the African Centre for Women in Information and Communications Technology (ACWICT) to promote skills development and job placement for young female graduates in technology and business.<br /><br />
The program consists of one-on-one Skype sessions and on-the-field EmployMentor week training. The Skype component will demonstrate the effective utilisation of technology to gain information worker knowledge for 20 of the mentees for eight months.<br /><br />
The candidates will benefit from a combination of Microsoft’s skilled talent base and Microsoft finance mentors around the world. Already through the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/africa/4afrika/academy/myskills4afrika.aspx">MySkills4Afrika programme</a>, Microsoft employees are volunteering their time and talent to provide personalised mentorships in several countries across the continent, while gaining a better understanding of African markets.<br /><br />
“Unemployment is a challenge for many youth, and initiatives such as EmployMentor can bridge the skills gap between academia and the working world,” said Kunle Awosika, Microsoft Kenya country manager. “Through the 4Afrika Initiative, Microsoft aims to play an active role in the evolution of Africa from a labour-based economy to a knowledge economy, by empowering local innovation, up-skilling youth with 21st century ICT skills and providing Internet access.”<br /><br />
During the EmployMentor week, all participants will engage in exciting mock interview and business case challenges, coupled with financial-modelling training that will help them experience a real-world business pitch and interview scenario. This could also lead to an interview for a position at Microsoft. In addition, a mobile app development and guest speaker series will be included in the weeklong event. Skills training, content development and support will be provided through the recently launched Kenyan Employability Portal, <a href="http://www.tukoworks.co.ke/">Tukoworks</a> and the <a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/">Microsoft Virtual Academy</a> during the EmployMentor week. The curriculum will be localised to ensure it is in line with the requirements in Kenya and complemented by the ACWICT’s Life Skills curriculum.<br /><br />
According to the United Nations Development Programme, youth unemployment rates in Kenya are several times higher than the rates among adults and particularly high in cities and among females. “There is a huge opportunity for women to fill the growing demand for ICT and business skills in Kenya, but many still face limited access to training and education,” Awosika said. Women are underrepresented in high-growth fields such as science, technology and engineering, key drivers of a country’s innovation, connectedness and competitiveness in global markets.<br /><br />
“When women are included in the mainstream economy, the spinoff effect is social uplift for their families and surrounding community,” said Olive Mugenda, vice chancellor of Kenyatta University. “All women mentees from Kenyatta University demonstrate a positive attitude, strong work ethic and passion to impact their community positively through business-oriented IT solutions. We are looking forward to what they will achieve in a few years’ time, and they will be ambassadors for more women who aspire to succeed in the business and IT fields.”<br /><br />
The ACWICT’s mission is to promote women’s access to and knowledge of ICT as tools for social, economic and political development by partnering with universities to source candidates, providing staff and space for the management of the mentor program, and assisting in content development. Mentees will be provided with job placement follow-up support from ACWICT. “The future of the ICT sector is exciting. These are unchartered waters open to creativity, innovation and entirely new ways of working, interacting and learning that should appeal to women and men alike,” said Constantine Obuya, executive director of ACWICT.<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/">Microsoft BizSpark</a>, an online platform providing tools, resources, networking and training opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs, will be connecting successful startup owners to mentors to help them create business plans. The EmployMentor participants will also be fielded as prospective talent for established BizSpark businesses.<br /><br />
<strong>About Microsoft</strong><br /><br />
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential.<br /><br />
<strong>About Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)</strong><br /><br />
Microsoft has operated in EMEA since 1982. In the region Microsoft employs more than 16,000 people in over 64 subsidiaries, delivering products and services in more than 139 countries and territories.<br /><br />
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<div style="clear: both;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482714723197897846.post-58981734286909603512014-11-04T10:37:00.001-05:002014-11-04T10:37:05.699-05:00How the Women’s Hackathon on Wearables Inspired Students to Lead<a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/11/how-the-womens-hackathon-on-wearables-inspired-students-to-lead/">How the Women’s Hackathon on Wearables Inspired Students to Lead</a>: <br /><br />
The results of the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/11/finding-success-at-the-womens-hackathon-for-wearables-at-wvu/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:pbs/mediashift-blog(mediashift-blog)">Women’s Hackathon on Wearables</a> are in. Co-sponsored by <a href="http://www.wvu.edu/">West Virginia University</a> <a href="http://reedcollegeofmedia.wvu.edu/">Reed College of Media</a> and PBS MediaShift, this hackathon was a pivotal event for the eight teams who participated in an immersive weekend envisioning a startup use of wearable tech from a women-only perspective.<br /><br />
More than 50 women from WVU and other universities including Penn State, Howard, Syracuse and Carnegie Melon participated in the weekend event that launched with a symposium at Google of women leaders in the technology industry who set a clear tone of assertive ambition for the young women.<br /><br />
“You’re not the next generation of women of wearables,” we said to participants, emphasizing the opportunities for women at the beginning of an emerging market. “You’re the <i>first</i> generation.”<br /><br />
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<div><div title="Pin this image to Pinterest. Right-click to turn-off this feature."><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2014/11/pitch.jpg"></a></div><a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2014/11/pitch.jpg"><img alt="The winning team delivers a fast-paced, 4-minute pitch to the panel of judges and an audience of their competitors. WVU Reed College of Media Dean Maryanne Reed and hackathon participants interact with the women leaders in technology symposium at Google. The symposium kicked off the Hackathon Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Photo by David Smith/Reed College of Media." src="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2014/11/pitch-e1415055616927.jpg" height="299" style="height: auto; max-width: 618px;" width="550" /></a></div><br /><br />
The winning team delivers a fast-paced, 4-minute pitch to the panel of judges and an audience of their competitors. WVU Reed College of Media Dean Maryanne Reed and hackathon participants interact with the women leaders in technology symposium at Google. The symposium kicked off the Hackathon Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Photo by David Smith/Reed College of Media.</div><h2>“Patent Now!”</h2>Competition was fierce. Each team delivered an ignite-style pitch to a panel of five judges that featured <a href="http://stemploy.com/founders/">Lynn Dombrowski, co-founder of STEMPLOY</a>, an initiative to mentor young women in science, technology, engineering and math fields; Brett Carpenter and Brendan Gibat, software engineers for Morgantown company <a href="https://www.listhub.com/about.html">ListHub</a>; <a href="http://www.bowlesrice.com/Attorneys/Attorneys/Hardesty-Odell,-Ashley">Ashley Hardesty Odell</a>, a partner at Bowles Rice LLP; and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michele-o-connor/62/487/116">Michelle O’Connor</a>, an investment manager for WV Jobs Investment Trust. Acknowledging that each team pitched compelling concepts for viable products, the judges struggled to select a winner from ideas that included a hands-free system for journalists to streamline reporting in the field optimized for Google Glass, a bra that conducts regular breast examinations, a fashionable earpiece that sends scheduling reminders and an application young people can use to take a “timeout” from technology.<br /><br />
In the end, judges declared BioBit the winning startup with the most feasible, valuable use case for wearable technology. BioBit is designed as an attachment to the popular fitness wearable, Fitbit, and measures biomarkers crucial to women’s health in real-time. We’d tell you more…but we’re mindful of the judges’ concluding comment to team members to “Patent now!”<br /><br />
<h2>Team Spirit</h2>Each young woman was handed a toy mascot at the beginning of the weekend and instructed to find their fellow team members. Team “Ghost” started as awkward strangers and ended up as fast friends, co-conspirators and possible business partners with their winning startup pitch.<br /><br />
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Meet Team Ghost: Valerie Bennett, a senior advertising student at WVU from Masontown, West Virginia; Alex Garip, a freshman film student at Penn State University from Hackensack, New Jersey; Alise Bundage, a freshman broadcast journalism student at Howard University from Oklahoma City; and Carlee Lammers, a senior print journalism student at WVU from Middletown, Maryland.<br /><br />
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The winning team’s facilitators Ann Chester and Lindsay Emery observe their team in action. Photo by David Smith/Reed College of Media.</div><a href="http://directory.hsc.wvu.edu/UserDetails/28745">Ann Chester</a>, assistant vice president/social justice, project director for the Health Sciences & Technology Academy and Lindsay Emery, the former business development manager for the <a href="http://provost.wvu.edu/academic_affairs/research_economic_development">WVU Office of Research & Economic Development</a>, served as the team’s faculty facilitators.<br /><br />
In keeping with the spirit of the Hackathon — adding women’s absent voices to the technology industry and creating a network for women of wearables — let’s listen in as the team members talk about their experience in their own words:<br /><br />
<h2>Women First</h2><b>Let’s start at the beginning. What were your expectations coming into this?</b><br /><br />
“I thought I was actually going to be coding into a computer. So this was just different. I didn’t know there was going to be this much creativity involved.” — Alise Bundage, Howard University freshman<br /><br />
“I had no idea what we were going to be doing! I knew it was about women in media, but I did not know that we were going to be competing. And I had no idea how innovative it was going to be and all the creative freedom we were going to be able to have and how much work was going to be involved. But it was great work and fun and now they’re some of my greatest friends…and hopefully business partners in the future.” — Alex Garip, Penn State University freshman<br /><br />
<b>How did you tackle this? You got the challenge, you took off racing to find a room, then what?</b><br /><br />
“We actually were weaving all over the place. We were trying to problem-solve for women and thinking about how time is a big factor in their lives. Valerie must have said a hundred times, ‘It’s back to time, back to time.’ I have so many apps on my phone that require me to type everything in, and I’m even too lazy to delete them. And then were like, wouldn’t it be cool if the information we wanted was just right there. And then we had the idea of partnering with a company that’s already established. It just seems so feasible to us. Like we can <i>do</i> this.” — Carlee Lammers, WVU senior<br /><br />
“…The moment that it all hit, I wish we could have recorded it or something. We were all connected, it was like ‘this is it!” — Valerie Bennett, WVU senior<br /><br />
“…And it was so cool because every time we got a step closer to our final product, we were all ‘high five,’ yes that’s it! We had these problems within the bigger problem, but every bridge, we crossed.” — Alex Garip<br /><br />
<b>You all are used to working in teams, but what is it like to be in a team made up exclusively of women?</b><br /><br />
“It was unlike anything I’ve ever done before. We come with these different backgrounds, but we all want to tell the same story.” — Carlee Lammers<br /><br />
“We are all passionate women. Everyone here is a fighter, everybody has dreams laid out and working with other women…it was hard to describe. You automatically felt connected, right off the bat. There wasn’t any awkwardness, where it’s quiet for the first minute. It was just straight into it.” — Valerie Bennett<br /><br />
“I think what’s really cool too is that you can look at this product and say, ‘Yeah this is a woman-first device.’” — Alex Garip<br /><br />
<b>How has this event changed your perception as a woman in the technology industry or the media industry? And what lies ahead?</b><br /><br />
“Doing something like this, win or lose, we felt so empowered all the way through. There’s not enough of that. People always say, you can do whatever you put your mind to. But this <i>showed</i> me that.” — Carlee Lammers<br /><br />
“It was really cool doing this outside of class and actually implementing everything we’ve learned. That’s what made it so beautiful. This is real, this is happening right now. We solve problems all the time in our daily life, but figuring out a way to not just solve them by yourself, but to work with a group. It taught me how to approach things differently.” — Valerie Bennett<br /><br />
“This conference just made dreams tangible. Ugh, that is so cheesy. Oh that is the cheesiest thing I’ve ever said. But I’ve never been so much a part of something made from scratch. This weekend secured my decision that these are the kind of women I want to be working with in my life. — Alex Garip<br /><br />
“This weekend made me feel like I can have more say in the technology industry. We just threw everything out there on the table. I’ve never done anything like that before. It changed the way I view technology. It made me feel like I have a voice.” — Alise Bundage<br /><br />
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Team Ghost celebrates their winning pitch for BioBit, from left to right: Alise Bundage, Carlee Lammers, Valerie Bennett, and Alex Garip. Photo by David Smith/Reed College of Media.</div><em><a href="https://twitter.com/poetabook">Dana Coester</a> is an assistant professor at the PI Reed School of Journalism, West Virginia University, and also serves as creative director for the school’s media innovation center. Coester’s work focuses on community media and the economic development potential in technology disruption. Her research examines the future of storytelling with special interests in mobile, augmented reality and wearable technology at the intersection of narrative and neuroscience. Coester earned her master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1993.</em><br /><br />
<div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4482714723197897846.post-23692326386443586182014-10-29T20:06:00.001-04:002014-10-29T20:06:31.090-04:00ABI Opens Applications for 2015 Top Company for Women in Computing ABIE Award Initiative<a href="http://anitaborg.org/news/press-release/abi-opens-applications-for-2015-top-company-for-women-in-computing-abie-award-initiative/">ABI Opens Applications for 2015 Top Company for Women in Computing ABIE Award Initiative</a>: <br /><br />
<div><h2 align="center">Technology Organizations Encouraged to Participate in Diversity Measurement, Benchmarking, and Accountability Initiative</h2><b>PALO ALTO, Calif</b>. — October 9, 2014 – The <a href="http://www.anitaborg.org/">Anita Borg Institute</a>, (ABI) a non-profit organization focused on advancing women in computing, today opened submissions for the <a href="http://anitaborg.org/awards-grants/top-company-for-women-in-computing/">2015 Top Company for Women in Computing ABIE Award</a>, the only industry-wide initiative focused on quantitative measurement of women’s participation in the technical workforce. In light of the recent release of disappointing diversity data from technology firms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others, ABI’s Top Company initiative takes on significance as a true measure of progress for organizations that are dedicated to building diverse technical teams.<br /><br />
The winner of the Top Company Award and other participants in the initiative will be featured at the 2015 Women of Vision Awards Banquet in Santa Clara, CA on May 14, 2015. The deadline to <a href="http://anitaborg.org/awards-grants/top-company-for-women-in-computing/">participate</a> in the 2015 Top Company for Women in Computing initiative is November 21, 2014.<br /><br />
“Participating in the Top Company initiative is an important next step for companies that are serious about the inclusion of women in their technical workforce,” said Telle Whitney, president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute. “Measurement is essential to accountability, and we are thrilled to see an increasing number of companies publicly acknowledge their focus on building diverse technical teams.”<br /><br />
The call for participation in the Top Company initiative comes on the second day of ABI’s annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), where 8,000 attendees, representing 925 technology organizations, have come together for the largest gathering of women technologists in the world.<br /><br />
This year’s conference features a track on organizational change that includes participants from the 2014 Top Company Award initiative.<br /><br />
The Organizational Change track includes the following sessions:<br /><br />
<ul><li><i>Accountability and Metrics</i> featuring Laszlo Bock (Google), Danielle Brown (Intel – 2013 Top Company Winner), Theresa Kushner (VMWare), and Denise Menelly (Bank of America – 2014 Top Company Winner)</li>
<li><i>Dynamics of Hyper-Effective Teams: How Inclusive Environments Drive Innovation</i> lead by Lori Mackenzie (Clayman Institute for Gender Research) and Caroline Simard (Clayman Institute for Gender Research)</li>
<li><i>Accelerating the Advancement of Women Technologists </i>featuring Michelle Angier (eBay Inc.), Susan Davis-Ali (Leadhership1), Peggy Irelan (Intel – 2013 Top Company Winner), and Susan Puglia (IBM – 2011 Top Company Winner)</li>
</ul>Past winners and 2014 participants in the Top Company initiative are also featured at the career fair and highlighted in the career fair guide.<br /><br />
ABI partner companies will also take part in the Anita Borg Institute’s Technical Executive Forum, an invitation-only event at GHC, for top industry leaders to discuss the challenge of getting more women in technical roles. This year’s Technical Executive Forum boasts 88 participating executives from leading technology firms, including CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and other executives. The Executive Forum includes discussions about eliminating bias in recruiting, the advancement of women in technical roles, programs to support the retention of women technologists, and addressing cultural challenges of the technology industry as a whole. ABI encourages its partners, sponsors and all companies who view technology innovation as a strategic imperative to participate in the Top Company initiative.<br /><br />
“Participating in the Top Company initiative gives companies an opportunity to benchmark their progress and to identify areas to improve their numbers,” added Whitney. “We applaud all participants and recognize their commitment to building inclusive environments.”<br /><br />
Every year, ABI provides each participating company a confidential report benchmarking their performance against industry norms and aggregated peer data. ABI evaluates companies using research-based industry benchmarks in hiring, retaining, and promoting women technologists as well as representation across career levels (entry, mid, senior and executive levels). At the end of the process, ABI recognizes one company with the Top Company for Women in Computing ABIE Award for demonstrating measurable results in the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in technical jobs at all levels. Companies who receive the award are widely recognized as leaders in leveraging diverse talent for greater innovation.<br /><br />
In 2014, 24 leading technology organizations participated in the Top Company Award initiative, and participation in the program is expected to increase this year. <a href="http://anitaborg.org/news/press-release/abi-awards-bank-of-america-2014-top-company-for-women-in-computing/">Bank of America</a> was recognized with the 2014 Top Company for Women in Computing ABIE Award, for exceptional representation of women technologists in both its technical management and team of technical experts. The Company has the highest percentage of women among its technical experts of any company ever considered by the Anita Borg Institute for a Top Company Award. In addition, Bank of America successfully retains the vast majority of its female technologists, with only 3% voluntary turnover annually.<br /><br />
To participate in the 2015 Top Company for Women in Computing ABIE Award initiative, fill out the <a href="http://anitaborg.org/awards-grants/top-company-for-women-in-computing/">application</a> on the Anita Borg Institute website.<br /><br />
<div align="center"># # #</div><b>About the Anita Borg Institute (ABI)</b><br /><br />
The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) connects, inspires, and guides women in computing and organizations that view technology innovation as a strategic imperative. Founded in 1997 by computer scientist Anita Borg, our reach extends to more than 67 countries. We believe technology innovation powers the global economy, and that women are crucial to building technology the world needs. As a social enterprise, we recognize women making positive contributions, and advise organizations on how to improve performance by building more inclusive teams. ABI partners include: Cisco, Google, HP, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, CA Technologies, Dell, Dropbox, eBay Inc., Facebook, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Juniper Networks, National Science Foundation, NetApp, SAP, Symantec, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Amazon, Bank of America, EMC, GoDaddy, LinkedIn, Lockheed Martin, Nationwide, Neustar, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, VentureLoop, Viacom, VMware, and Yahoo! The Anita Borg Institute is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 charitable organization. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.anitaborg.org/">www.anitaborg.org</a>.<br /><br />
Follow the Anita Borg Institute on Twitter at @anitaborg_org and become a fan at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/anitaborginstitute">www.facebook.com/anitaborginstitute</a>.<br /><br />
<b>For More Information, contact:</b><br /><br />
Kate Carey<br /><br />
New Venture Communications<br /><a href="mailto:kcarey@newventurecom.com">kcarey@newventurecom.com</a><br /><br />
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Miranda Chaiken, Aida Piccato and Sunnam Quispe are seniors at Stuyvesant High School and the creators of <a href="http://nyc-happenings.com/">NYC Happenings</a>. Their site, which guides users to events, is powered by <a href="http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/events_api">The New York Times Event Listings API</a> and searchable by genre and borough. They explained that they found themselves doing the same activities every day and decided to build a functional website as a cure for their boredom. While all three have taken computer science classes at Stuyvesant’s <a href="http://www.stuycs.org/">prestigious computer science program</a>, they attended the <a href="http://girlswhocode.com/clubs/">Girls Who Code Club</a> at Twitter’s headquarters to hone their programming skills.<br /><br />
Already comfortable with Python and with some HTML experience, but new to Javascript and CSS, they built the site using Bootstrap and <a href="http://flask.pocoo.org/">Flask</a>, figuring out what they needed as they went along. Ms. Chaiken, Ms. Piccato and Ms. Quispe chose The Times’s API because it was free and easy to use. They found themselves relying on the documentation and hope to expand the site to use more information from the API, as well as additional data sources. For more, check out <a href="https://github.com/apiccato/NYC-Happenings">https://github.com/apiccato/NYC-Happenings</a>. You can follow Ms. Quispe at <a href="https://twitter.com/KonceQ">@konceq</a> or find her on <a href="https://github.com/konceq">GitHub</a>.<br /><br />
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<div><br /></div><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/10/26/2137245/solving-the-mystery-of-declining-female-cs-enrollment?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.<br /><br />
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