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Winning the Future with Women & Girls
Women have made huge strides in our quest for equal standing in the U.S. workforce, and today we fill nearly 50% of all jobs in the nation. But the story is very different in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), where women still constitute less than 25% of workers.
Posted on 13 Mar 2012
How to Solve the Tech Hiring Problem Ask Women
Though women make up half the U.S. workforce, they hold only 25 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – a disparity that’s especially disconcerting given frequent complains from tech executives who can’t find enough qualified applicants. To help connect companies with talented women, the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology released a report containing specific and actionable advice for companies. If you’re in any kind of hiring position in the tech world, you should read it and start correcting the common mistakes it identifies, whether a narrow recruiting process that fails to reach qualified candidates or a company culture that doesn’t welcome female employees.
Posted on 13 Mar 2012
Towards Women in Science and Technology (TWIST)
In this issue of the Ecsite Quarterly Newsletter, follow (among other gender subjects) the evolution of the Towards Women in Science and Technology (TWIST) as it challenges visitors across Europe to reconsider their gender biases about women in science.
Posted on 13 Mar 2012
Gender and Occupational Outcomes: Longitudinal Assessment of Individual, Social, and Cultural Influences
This book discusses gender-related disparities in science, technology, and math careers in the 21st century.
Posted on 24 Feb 2012
The Glass Ceiling in the 21st Century: Understanding Barriers to Gender Equality
This volume explains and offers remedies for women's continued inequality with men in the workplace, based on empirical evidence.
Posted on 24 Feb 2012
Workshop Activity for Gender Equity Simulation
WAGES is an experiential learning activity designed to educate individuals about the sources and cumulative effects of subtle gender bias. WAGES delivers well-documented, empirically-based information in a brief and interactive format. Elements of the activity allow for direct comparison of gender-specific realities in the academic work environment. The activity is self-contained, takes approximately 90 minutes (including post-activity discussion and debriefing), and does not require special skills of the facilitator. The activity has the specific focus demonstrating the bias that women face in the academic workplace, however the thematic content of WAGES is applicable to other underrepresented groups as well.
Posted on 24 Feb 2012
Girls in ICT Portal
Girls in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Portal provides practical information on scholarship programs, internships, training opportunities, online networks, Girls in ICT Day activities and other resources. This portal is designed to encourage girls and young women to prepare themselves for a career in ICT and inform parents, teachers and other stakeholders on why preparing for a career in ICTs is good for women and girls, good for business and good for societies.
Posted on 17 Feb 2012
Wanted: Young women to work in high-tech sector
Women represent a quarter of the ICT workforce, a statistic that hasn’t changed in 10 years. At a time when we’re surrounded with information about job loss and organizations teetering on the brink, the ICT industry is pulling out all stops to woo young women to tech to help fill more than 100,000 jobs expected to be created in Canada in the next five years.
Posted on 10 Feb 2012
Women in Tech: Jennifer Brace has a better idea
Introducing Jennifer Brace, user interface engineer at Ford Motor Company. She offers insight on how women might need technology to be designed with different needs in mind.
Posted on 10 Feb 2012
Why women are leading the transformation of IT
Until just a few years ago, CIOs have largely been defined by how well they could deliver products or solutions to their core customer, the business user. However, as the cloud emerges as a truly viable alternative to IT, it has become clear that the transformative CIO must rethink the entire IT paradigm and evolve his or her organization into one that delivers competitive services to the business. This new strategy requires not only a very different approach, but also quite literally a different mindset. In my current role at technology business management provider Apptio, we're seeing an increasing number of women taking the helm of IT organizations, which makes me wonder whether women possess certain qualities that make them particularly well suited to this role of services transformation.
Posted on 07 Feb 2012

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