Much has been said about the most important factors to achieve career success as a woman in technology. Focusing on results, talent, speaking up, developing a personal brand, negotiation, networking, and mentoring, come to mind. One ...READ»
As I have written here and elsewhere, women are consistently underrepresented in technical degrees and professions and are virtually absent from top positions, both in academia and in industry. So I was wondering, where are the worst ...READ»
On some dimensions, the US is a beacon for women’s rights around the world – women now comprise more than half the workforce, graduate form high school at greater rates than men, and have broken down barriers in all spheres ...READ»
If there is one thing that scholars, policy makers, industry representatives, and republican and democrat government officials agree on, it’s that education, and especially science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ...READ»
I have written a lot here about the representation of women in technical roles in industry and what companies need to do to increase the representation of women. However, any effort to recruit, retain, and advance technical women will ...READ»
This week, we have released a report (co-authored by myself and Shannon Gilmartin) on the attributes of senior technical women, based on our data collection effort with the technical employees at 7 high-tech companies with a presence ...READ»
I was listening to an interview the other day on NPR (http://www.wbur.org/npr/124585536) with Luisa Kroll from Forbes about the recent list of billionaires worldwide. One of her comments caught my ear: [There are] 89 ...READ»
One of the critical issues facing a majority of professional women is work-life “balance” (for a reminder of why the term ‘balance’ is a part of the problem, see my previous blog post on the topic). Women still bear the ...READ»
Barbie became a computer engineer today. In a field that has so few female role models, this is a victory. For most young girls, becoming a technologist is not on the radar of the possible jobs. Research shows that girls are less ...READ»
A few weeks ago I attended a policy speech by Secretary Clinton at the Newseum in Washington DC. For those of you who didn’t read the coverage, here is the speech and the video. As we all know, the internet, ...READ»
I thought I’d write a bit about policy this week, since the State of the Union is the talk of the town and everyone is busy analyzing every presidential remark. Some would argue that the country is too busy fighting wars and ...READ»
In our work with companies, we often work with executives who are looking to change the presence and impact of women in their organization. However, one of the unfortunate truths is that employees often leave managers, not ...READ»
It’s only a few days in January, and I’ve heard from a lot of people on their resolutions: lose weight, be more organized, exercise more, get more sleep, and the quintessential Silicon Valley resolution, “break the blackberry ...READ»
At the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI), 2009 has been an inspiring year as we grew in organizational size, in program participation, in online community participation, as well as increasing our impact on the ...READ»
In 2009, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology convened high-technology executives at the Technical Executive Forum. The topic: what should executives change in technical organizations in order to improve the recruitment, ...READ»
At the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, the companies we work with regularly express deep concern about their ability to keep their best talent. Many executives are surprised when they research differences in ...READ»
Have you heard? The recession is over. Really? Despite the encouraging signs in macro-economic data, the reality for most technology employees is still one of layoffs, cost cutting, and doing more with less. But if you think you ...READ»
The Anita Borg Change Agent Award recognizes three experienced women from around the world whose work goes to the heart of the Anita Borg Institute's mission: to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and to ...READ»
I don’t know about you, but I’m confused. There has been a lot of media attention on research on women’s issues recently (most notably in Time Magazine, covered again on NPR’s Talk of the Nation), which is a great thing, ...READ»
At the Grace Hopper Conference, I had the chance to meet Ekaterina Fedotova the director for Information Dissemination and Equal Access (IDEA) project in Russia. Ekaterina is the 2009 winner of the Anita Borg Social Impact ...READ»
