Sentences with phrase «more women in technology»

«You've got to get more women in technology because those are the high - paying jobs.»

There's a more existential reason we need more women in technology leadership roles.

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But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots for women and started a company to manufacture them.

Broadly, there tend to be more men in high - paying fields like technology, and more women in lower - paid ones such as education, creating much of the imbalance, said management consultant Steve Tobak, managing partner for Invisor Consulting in California.

At the same time, Intel announced similar initiatives, such as its massive Diversity in Technology Initiative, which through a partnership with GirlsWhoCode is helping to provide more educational support to a greater number of young women.

What's more, she's also using the day to teach her students about the lack of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

So it's really important that more women and girls have the opportunity to participate in technology, to learn how to code, create, and innovate.»

The CrowdMed cofounder thinks women in the technology industry need to be take a cue from the men around them and be more arrogant and grandiose in their self - assessments.

Gelman says the company will use the money to hire more employees, expand its physical footprint, invest in technology that will beef up its digital member portal, and more importantly, add a «scholarship program» for professional women who can't afford The Wing's rates.

Only time and much more research in larger groups of women will determine whether the new technology will be an effective option for older women who have had trouble conceiving.

Due to her reputation as a passionate woman executive in technology, Debbie is a sought after speaker and writer, having appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CNBC, Huffington Post, FoxTV and more.

More than two dozen women in the technology start - up industry spoke to The Times in recent days about being sexually harassed.

Women - led private technology companies are more capital - efficient, achieve 35 percent higher return on investment, and, when venture - backed, bring in 12 percent higher revenue than male - owned tech companies.

2014.09.29 RBC and CanWIT join forces to develop women leaders in IT Jennifer Stott is an information technology (IT) executive at RBC - and she wants more women to join her...

I love software and technology and would love to see more girls / women get involved in the industry!

In a press release, the company explained that the technology supported by Citi and Mastercard will improve the organization's ability to promote digital financial access and inclusion for the more than 86,000 low - income minority women entrepreneurs across the United States.

But as he urged them then to get down to more concrete work in support of various efforts of appropriate technology research and development, their comments and questions kept skimming past this first priority to the practical pros and cons, the alleged sins of the oil companies, his attitude toward women's liberation, the possibility and desirability of violent revolution.

A close parallel is observable between a comment by an early protagonist of the theory, Dorwin Cartwright, who in 1949 suggested that, «it is conceivable that one persuasive person could, through the use of mass media, bend the world's population to his will,» (3) and the 1979 affirmation by NRB Executive Secretary Ben Armstrong, «I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

In his recent book The Electronic Church (Nelson, 1979), he writes:» I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»

This year's theme, «Imagine Your Dreams and Ignite the Future,» will offer valuable strategies for women to develop their hospitality careers and maximize opportunities, and will cover a range of topics including social media, artisanal milling, GMOs, equal pay, advances in kitchen technology and much more.

Just as you might ask why so few women are in technology, you might ask why more mothers aren't developing products for your children.

With advances in medical technology, the infant mortality rate declined as more babies were born in hospitals, which encouraged still more women to choose hospitals as the preferred place to deliver.

It might make sense that, say, technology bloggers would be disproportionately male, since many more men than women work in high - tech (and obsess about it), but politics is a different animal — women may still be underrepresented in top elected offices, but at least as many women as men work as political activists and political staff or as volunteers.

The IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards recognise and promote women in engineering and technology and encourage more women to join the profession.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

While it is true that women face social barriers, as they do in much of the world, young women nonetheless comprise more than half of undergraduate enrollment in some science, technology and medical courses at major Arab universities.

«We're pleased to play a role in the university's overall effort to engage more women in science, technology, engineering and math.»

Identified via mammography and other screening technologies, DCIS is currently diagnosed annually in about 60,000 women in the U.S., and is generally treated similarly to other more advanced breast cancers with surgery and radiation therapy.

Things got more personal in 1999 when the European Technology Assessment Network published a table placing the Netherlands last in the percentage of women elected to more than 30 national academies of science worldwide: A dismal 0.4 % of the Dutch Royal Academy's fellows, one out of 237, was a woman (4).

The results are small step toward identifying more interventions that help women stay in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields.

Just yesterday, The White House Council on Women and Girls held this event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to encourage more girls to get involved in science, engineering, technology and math.

As changes in technology have altered the tools and methods, social changes have brought more women to the discipline.

«For her to become president of NAS at this time, when there is a lot of talk about getting more women and minorities into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, here is an exemplary role model to those who might see themselves in those realms,» McEntee said.

More groups are going to bat for underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, the most recent being a Sloan Foundation pretenure faculty fellowship program, a National Academy of Engineering summit on women in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technowomen in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and TechnoWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology.

I hope that as there are more and more women visible in science and technology on the internet it's not going to be a thing to point at and comment on.

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

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More recently, she co-founded the Seattle chapter of the Anita Borg Institute, the largest global network of women in technology.

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engin

For women working in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) jobs, the workplace is a different, sometimes more hostile environment than the one their male coworkers experience.

And the use of assisted reproductive technology such as in vitro fertilization (common among women 35 - plus) seems to boost miscarriage risks even more.

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Today we see that Tobii Technology and AnswerLab announcing the results of an eye - tracking study showing that men spend 65 percent more time reviewing photos in online dating profiles than women do.

Using eye - tracking technology, scientists from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction found that women are actually more likely to have wandering eyes than men are.

These days with progression in technology especially the revolution of smart phones has made the process of younger women and older men much easier and more private.

A new study finds that girls are more likely to take physics if they see women in their communities working in science, technology, engineering and math.

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

A new scheme is working to get more women into careers in science and technology by starting in the classroom.

In any context, these women's contributions to science and aerospace technology would be impressive, but the obstacles imposed by the norms of their society make their achievements all the more impressive.