Tech may grab headlines for its misogyny and racial biases, but when it comes to job satisfaction, professional women still rank it as the best industry to work in, according to a survey by the company InHerSight. That’s sad for the state of women in tech and shows just how low of a bar industries have
When Annie Caron and Laurence de Villers realized they were among the only female members of their classes at École de technologie supérieure (ETS), they felt that wasn’t right. Since then, the two have become the driving forces behind getting Google’s Women Techmakers event to Montreal. “We are both from this school and when I
Kansas City again ranks as a top city for women in tech, but it has struggled to clinch the No. 1 spot. For three consecutive years, the local tech hub has landed the No. 2 spot in SmartAsset's "Best Cities for Women in Tech" list. Washington came in at No. 1, followed by Kansas City,
The number of issues women working in the tech industry face is staggering. From unequal pay and uneven hiring to serious cases of harassment and discrimination and more — like Susan Fowler's recent revelations about working at Uber — there is a lot of work still to be done. Many entities in Chicago have taken these
Addressing the under-representation of women as technical practitioners, Interop ITX speaker Patricia Dugan outlines some of the issues that the IT and tech sectors need to address.
Meet StateScoop’s inaugural list of the Top Women in Technology for 2017 — an elite group of the women across the state and local government community who are infrequently recognized, but constantly working to improve government and the lives of those governed. From Amy Tong’s reflection on taking the helm as the chief information officer
“The lack of women in technology roles really starts in education,” said Crystal Valentine, vice president of technology strategy at MapR Technologies. “It starts at the time when students are starting to think about their careers, primarily at the college level when they start to declare majors.” Women of Washington invited Valentine on the show
System Networking giant, Cisco, has advocated more and greater roles for women in technology development in Nigeria and across the globe. This call emerged at Cisco’s 5th yearly Women of Impact Conference (WOI). The event, which coincided with International Women’s Day on March 8, was themed, “It’s Time. Collaborate. Lead. Inspire.” The WOI conference, which
One weekday morning in 2007, Bethanye Blount came into work early to interview a job applicant. A veteran software engineer then in her 30s, Blount held a senior position at the company that runs Second Life, the online virtual world. Good-natured and self-confident, she typically wore the kind of outfit—jeans, hoodie, sneakers—that signals coding gravitas.
CAMDEN - Learning to write code is hard. It takes specialized, expensive training. Most of the people who do it are young men who started learning about technology at an early age, and it takes countless hours holed up in front of a glowing screen to get anywhere in the tech industry. Wrong, wrong, wrong and
