Beyond the demeaning comments and critiques are the 60 percent of
women in tech who have received unwanted sexual advances from coworkers or superiors, with one in three (one in three!)
As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE
every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.
Not exact matches
Anyone
who's read or heard anything about diversity
in tech is familiar with the pipeline problem: the fact that
women and under - represented minorities don't pursue STEM degrees at the same rate as men.
Then there's this comment by a female
tech executive McClure quotes: «There's a special place
in Hell for
women who «make it,» but aren't willing to turn around and help their peers
who haven't.»
Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture North America and Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls
Who Code speak at Fortune Most Powerful
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women in tech.
Melinda Gates told The New Yorker men
who «demean, degrade, or disrespect
women» have been able to operate
in industries like
tech and venture capital, and that «the asymmetry of power is ripe for abuse.»
He remembers, for instance, working
in tech support at an Internet advertising company and getting a frantic call from a
woman who was «completely flipping out.»
«The conflation of STEM experience with ability to be «
in tech» is something that seems to happen far more frequently (and reflexively) where
women are concerned — yet it's a standard that is not similarly imposed on the many, many male entrepreneurs and VCs
who participate
in the industry,» wrote Rachel Sklar, founder of TheList.
True or not (and many advocates for
women in tech spending their lives battling these stereotypes),
in our unpolitically correct moments most of us would admit that we hold an image of programmers as shy but brilliant types
who don't mind being holed away with their computers for hours or days on end.
When Marissa Mayer took over as Yahoo's chief executive one year ago today, the world knew her as a
woman who could pretty much write her own ticket
in the
tech industry.
-- based leadership training firm Lead by Design knows a
woman in her 50s with a master's degree
in IT sciences
who recently interviewed for a
tech position.
«Sometimes I feel like maybe it's a fluke that I even made it
in, because my friends aren't that different from me,» says Martina Abrahams, an African American
woman who works at a financial
tech company
in San Francisco and previously worked at Google.
I thought about how the gender gap persists
in tech despite declining
in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young
women who aspire to study computer science.
Finally,
in spite of the first name, Baker is a
woman, one of the few
who have risen to prominence
in one of the most male - dominated segments of the high -
tech industry.
Here are some
women entrepreneurs
in both health care and
tech who might not precisely fit Holmes's category (no co-founder, venture backing), but definitely deserve to be better - known.
She'd just ask
women who had once worked
in tech, but no longer did, why they left.
Snyder put out a call on social media, saying she wanted to
women who were formerly
in the
tech industry.
It strikes me,
in reading Snyder's collected stories, that the «cool kids» of
tech are imposing on
women the lousy environment they once suffered through — back when they were the nerds
who got teased and hassled.
But I worry that if we let the negative storylines overwhelm the positive ones, we'll scare away talented
women who want to be
in tech — and
who deserve to be.
It continued with a piece on the
tech website The Information
in which
women working
in Silicon Valley described sexual harassment from Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck (
who now also faces a lawsuit from a former employee).
Again, the
tech industry is really promoting
women in tech, so for those
who are interested
in that path going directly to the techie source is a savvy move.
Tavonia Evans,
who worked
in the
tech industry for nearly 20 years before launching her own cryptocurrency, called $ Guap, sees those
women too and says they're raising the bar because of how they've been held back
in the past.
Now an angel investor
who largely invests
in female founders, Fran was named one of Refinery29's «6 Most Powerful Women in NYC's Tech Scene» and one of Business Insider's «30 Women In Venture Capital to Watch in 2018.&raqu
in female founders, Fran was named one of Refinery29's «6 Most Powerful
Women in NYC's Tech Scene» and one of Business Insider's «30 Women In Venture Capital to Watch in 2018.&raqu
in NYC's
Tech Scene» and one of Business Insider's «30
Women In Venture Capital to Watch in 2018.&raqu
In Venture Capital to Watch
in 2018.&raqu
in 2018.»
The organization is leading efforts to impact these numbers directly with Female Founder Office Hours supporting
women who are seeking funding, to having
tech founders and CEOs commit to increasing diversity
in their team, board and investors.
«
In just the last 48 hours, I've spoken to a female
tech executive
who was grabbed by a male C.E.O. at a large event and another female executive
who was asked to interview at a venture fund because they «feel like they need to hire a
woman,»» said Dick Costolo, the former chief of Twitter,
who now runs the fitness start - up Chorus.
Allyson Kapin, founder of Rad Campaign and
Women Who Tech in Washington, D.C., says previous incidents, such as Uber advertising that was demeaning to women and a top executive's suggestion that the company conduct opposition research on journalists who are critical of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone
Women Who Tech in Washington, D.C., says previous incidents, such as Uber advertising that was demeaning to women and a top executive's suggestion that the company conduct opposition research on journalists who are critical of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone a
Who Tech in Washington, D.C., says previous incidents, such as Uber advertising that was demeaning to
women and a top executive's suggestion that the company conduct opposition research on journalists who are critical of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone
women and a top executive's suggestion that the company conduct opposition research on journalists
who are critical of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone a
who are critical of Uber, were shocking and disappointing but hadn't kept her from hailing rides on the smartphone app.
The 5th Annual Lesbians
Who Tech + Allies Summit from March 1 - 3rd, 2018
in the Castro District of San Francisco will bring together over 5,000 lesbians, queer
women + allies across all areas of technology.
Led by Vivek Wadhwa,
who holds titles at Stanford and Duke universities, and Lesa Mitchell, a vice president at the Kauffman Foundation, the report «
Women in Technology: Evolving, Ready to Save the World» draws on responses to an online survey from 500 women in the tech sector (inside and outside the U.S.) and is scheduled to be published this sp
Women in Technology: Evolving, Ready to Save the World» draws on responses to an online survey from 500
women in the tech sector (inside and outside the U.S.) and is scheduled to be published this sp
women in the
tech sector (inside and outside the U.S.) and is scheduled to be published this spring.
Women Who Tech has hosted six previous Women Startup Challenges, connecting women - led startups with more than $ 1 million in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investm
Women Who Tech has hosted six previous
Women Startup Challenges, connecting women - led startups with more than $ 1 million in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investm
Women Startup Challenges, connecting
women - led startups with more than $ 1 million in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investm
women - led startups with more than $ 1 million
in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investments.
On June 30, 2015,
Women Who Tech held the first - ever
Women Startup Challenge Pitch Competition at General Assembly / 1776
in Washington, D.C.
Yet Sukhinder Singh Cassidy,
who started TheBoardlist
in 2015 to highlight
women qualified to be directors of
tech companies, says she spots glimmers of hope as smaller firms begin to add more female directors.
Women Who Tech partnered with polling firm Lincoln Park Strategies to anonymously survey 950 tech employees, founders, and investors globally on their experiences in the tech sector because very little data has been gathe
Tech partnered with polling firm Lincoln Park Strategies to anonymously survey 950
tech employees, founders, and investors globally on their experiences in the tech sector because very little data has been gathe
tech employees, founders, and investors globally on their experiences
in the
tech sector because very little data has been gathe
tech sector because very little data has been gathered.
James Damore, a former Google engineer
who was fired
in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that
women may not be equally represented
in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company
in Santa Clara Superior Court
in Northern California.
The night shined a spotlight on
women and minority
tech founders
who are launching startups
in Austin.
Arlan is dedicated to minimizing funding disparities
in tech by investing
in high - potential founders
who are of color,
women, and / or LGBT.
Opportunity to plug your organization's upcoming events, services, etc.
in Women Who Tech e-newsletter updates.
The event was co-produced by
Women Who Tech and Craig Newmark's craigconnects, and awarded more than $ 400,000
in cash and cloud services.
As someone
who's been lucky to have a great career
in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career
in this industry can be for
women.
One way or another, Dr. Amy has turned a little tempest over a «
women's matter» into the potential for a major legal precedent that folks (young, childless, mostly male
tech - heads)
who don't know or care about home birth or the mommy wars will take an interest
in.
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«My lab works at the interface of materials, mechanics and medicine,» says Abadi,
who came to Michigan
Tech in 2017 following a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and
Women's Hospital.
vSculpt, the brainchild of high -
tech beauty executive and first - time mum Colette Courtion, was designed
in partnership with Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and included input from over 2,300
women who shared insights into their own intimate health problems and what they wanted
in a home - use solution.
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As a
woman of about the same age
who worked
in a manufacturing
tech field that was approx. 10 percent female, I think your comment is spot - on.
Stockard Channing is probably most famously known for her role as Betty Rizzo
in the musical «Grease,» but she's also a hilarious
woman who doesn't seem to have much faith
in online dating, the people
who use it, or her
tech skills.
im a very romantic, passionate man looking for his queen, will treat her like a lady, live
in a very peaceful life, im a pc
tech, like music play guitar and record my songs love to eat out, and have large movie library and music library, im a very polite gentleman type want a curvy
woman who is very p...
Cluttering Brad's thoughts and dreams are friends like Billy Wearsiter (Jemaine Clement, «What We Do
in the Shadows»)
who retired at age forty after selling his hi -
tech company and moved to Hawaii where he is living a life of leisure with
women around day and night.
Whether it's our hero's bantering spy ex-girlfriend (Lupita Nyong» o), his smartass,
tech - genius little sister (Letitia Wright), his tougher - than - leather mom (Angela Bassett) or the place guard
who is the biggest badass
in the whole damn movie (The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira) it takes a nation of
women to cover T'Challa's back.
Also formidable is the cadre of
women in T'Challa's court: the regal Angela Bassett as the royal matriarch; T'Challa's feisty baby sister (Letitia Wright),
who concocts and programs Wakanda's high -
tech, vibranium powered gadgets like his sleek panther outfit; the swooping aircraft; and rampaging Rhinos.