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The BBC is taking part in London Technology Week by hosting an exciting Women in Technology event on Tuesday, June 21. This free recruitment evening is inviting women to visit the BBC at its iconic central London headquarters to take a behind the scenes look at the various software applications used by the BBC for its audiences in the UK and across the world. The event is open to women who are experienced software engineers and developers as well as women who have recently graduated with a Computer Science or Software Engineering degree.

On June 1, Hightail hosted an exclusive screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, a documentary that explores the lack of female and minority software engineers in Silicon Valley and shows how this gap can be closed.

For students to participate effectively and become successful in this changing world, they must first understand it. Equipping students with specific skills to compete in a global job market is important, but cultivating their abilities to effectively share ideas and communicate across cultures in appropriate and respectful ways is critical. Regardless of location, socioeconomic status or cultural background, all students are equally deserving of educational experiences that prepare them to be globally competent by receiving instructional practices that consistently engage global content, multicultural perspectives and problem solving across subjects. Today's students need global education. VIF International Education and Getting Smart partnered to create Getting Smart on Global Education and Equity in order to examine the characteristics of globally competent students closely, and address how K-12 institutions can utilize global education practices to equitably prepare all students for success.

The Silicon Valley company is the latest to release its employee demographics. Yet another Silicon Valley company has chosen to release its diversity numbers to the public: GitHub. The company joins a long list of other tech players, from Apple to Airbnb, who have disclosed the demographic breakdown of their employee base. And though Github's report shows its male/female ratio is pretty much in line with the dismal industry average, the data also reveals that they've made significant improvements over just 18 months. That progress has been a deliberate initiative on the part of the company's chief executive officer, following a scandal that left the GitHub's name tainted, especially with women in Silicon Valley.

WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading global business organization for women in technology with more than 150,000 members worldwide, announced its 2016, annual Hall of Fame winners who will be honored at WITI's 22nd Women In Technology Annual Summit which will be held in San Jose, CA from June 5-7, 2016 at DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose. An awards ceremony will be held from 5:00-6:30 PM, followed by a special celebration to meet these exceptional women. The WITI Hall of Fame, considered to be one of the most prestigious honors for women in technology, was established in 1996 to recognize, honor, and promote the outstanding contributions women make to the scientific and technological communities that improve society and business. The winners are also acknowledged for demonstrating a commitment to supporting and mentoring women and girls worldwide.

Catalyst is Girls in Tech's largest event of the year. As a three-day event designed to celebrate women and provide a platform for candid discussions, it brings together women at all career levels and from all corners of the globe. Catalyst attracts luminary speakers from Silicon Valley who speak to topics ranging from innovating and the changing digital landscape to finding your career sweet spot and sources of startup funding. The most recent Catalyst event brought more than 450 people to Hotel Palomar in Phoenix, Arizona in April. In case you missed it: Check out this video from the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference this year. It features interviews with some of the today's top tech leaders. See what they have to say about GIT, diversity in the workplace and the conference overall.

Pinterest joined a growing number of companies, including Atlassian, Airbnb, Autodesk, and Twitter, in hiring a dedicated person to lead diversityinitiatives; still, significant change takes time, and the numbers haven't budged that much. Each of the new appointees acknowledge there is work to be done, not only to diversify the employee pool, but to make companies more inclusive. Some companies are looking to make an impact at the earliest point of the talent recruitment process: They're diversifying members of their internship programs. The potential ripple effect is huge.

There's no question the wage gap between men and women exists, but a new study from Ohio State University shows that even females with STEM-related PH.D. are getting paid as much as 31 percent less than their male counterparts. Some of it can be attributed to the fields within science, technology, engineering and mathematics that women choose, but removing that, Ohio State researchers found there is still an 11 percent gap. It turns out whether women have children or not may account for the remaining wage gap in STEM fields, the study reveals.

Google employees have proposed a new set of emojis aimed at promoting gender equality in the workplace, including cartoon female engineers, chemists, plumbers and farmers. The Google team presented the designs of 13 new emojis at theUnicode Consortium, a Silicon Valley not-for-profit group that runs an ''emoji subcommittee'' overseeing the creation of new emojis. ''No matter where you look, women are gaining visibility and recognition as never before,'' the four Google workers wrote in their proposal. ''Isn't it time that emoji also reflect the reality that women play a key role in every walk of life and in every profession?''