You don’t smile enough. People don’t like you. You smile too much. People don’t take you seriously. You’re abrasive, for example that time whe…
Key quotes from the Davos 2015 session Ending Poverty Through Parity, asking: How can investing in women and girls accelerate progress on the new development goals?
Flexibility allows lawyers, businesswomen, bankers, doctors and many other professional women to continue to advance in their careers or at least stay in the game while being the kind of parents they want to be and feel that they need to be to give their children the ability to compete. And flexibility allows low-income workers to stay home when a child is sick and not lose their jobs.
I have no trouble finding women in analytics or Big Data because I make a modest effort to look for them. If your analytics universe looks homogenous, get out of your box and make an effort to meet people who are a little different already.
If we can access 2 percent of that money controlled by women, we don’t need to be begging on Sand Hill Road
Via Ada’s Lister Jag Gill
Who are the tech masterminds to watch in 2015? Industry insider, Shivvy Jervis, gives her predictions.
Busque said she regularly thinks about how she can encourage women at her own company to take on leadership roles and grow as employees.
“I’ve had some very strong female role models, so I think that’s an important thing,” she added.
”—Task Rabbit Founder Leah Busque in an interview at Davos 2015Tired of the same male, pale and stale event panels? Here’s how to guarantee a more interesting, and diverse, line up. Sofie Sandell reports
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- Lots of entrepreneurial activity in NY
- Different industry focus than in Silicon Valley – more media, finance, real estate
- Women seem to be more represented as founders
- If a NY bias toward women as founders is true, why? And what are the lessons for Silicon Valley?
Women are better than men at knowing what other people are thinking, and that carries huge advantages in team settings
It would be no exaggeration to say that I’ve loved computers my whole life. Even in preschool, I was put in the “advanced” computer class (what that really means, who can say, but it tickles me to know that I was crushing it at Reader Rabbit and Math Blaster). In elementary school, I became obsessed with a virtual pet computer game that encouraged you to build websites for your pets, and that was my first foray into web development. In high school, I tried to take a computer science class but it was canceled due to low enrollment (only me and one other student)! Can you even imagine?
Scary as hell. It’s pathetic that people profit from victims of abuse.
Behind the great men at ‘The Park’ was an army of girls, and now their stories are told in a new book. By Sarah Rainey
A recently published study suggests women are much more modest than men when it comes to bragging about themselves.
IT IS a long time since the groves of academe were paced only by men, but even now some of them are more populated by women than others are. Why, is a mystery….
From shutting down flirtatious advances to conveying confidence, women share the challenges they faced in funding and how they succeed.
Danielle Fong wants to revamp the power grid with energy from compressed air.
If the 2015 Golden Globes taught us anything, it’s that women’s stories matter – and girls truly do rule. This year’s Globes gave us one badass feminist moment after another.
I am probably a familiar type to you. I went to college, got a master’s degree, started a career, married, and had my first child late, at 35. I was working as editor-in-chief of a fiction magazine called Zoetrope: All-Story when I became pregnant. The magazine, founded and published by Francis Ford Coppola, had long struggled to get a financial foothold. Under my editorship it achieved just shy of breakeven and earned a number of literary awards. In my last trimester, however, I found myself fighting for my job.
Via Ada’s Lister Lizz Choi of Bump & Bliss
White male nerds need to recognise that other people had traumatic upbringings, too – and that’s different from structural oppression.
Congratulations to Ada’s Lister Laura Willoughby on this feature in The Guardian/The Observer!