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Top 10 Gadgets this Christmas

No doubt this Christmas, technology companies will target men with tech babble (ram, gigs, specs etc), and then try to woo women by dressing up their products in glitzy, pinked up marketing bows. This is a guide for men and women, ...READ»

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Do you have a cape? The ‘diving catching’, firefighting, high-tech hero culture Caroline Simard, Vice President of Research and

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»

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Retaining Top Technical Talent, Some Examples, by Telle Whitney, CEO

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»

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Retention in the Age of Layoffs by Caroline Simard, Vice President of Research and Executive Programs

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»

Kenan Samms

Technology for Girls: Is It Different?

I am frustrated. I am bored. I feel patronised. PC World is telling me My World is Pink (it has not been pink since I was 7) and I need a new laptop to match my outfit (it would never even occur to me to match my outfit with my ...READ»

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2009 Anita Borg Change Agent Award Winners

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»

Kenan Samms

Fashion & Technology: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell?

Last week Dell hosted an event intended to unite the worlds of fashion and technology bloggers. Their goal was to discuss how technology could be re-positioned as fashion in order to sell it to women. With Microsoft's research ...READ»

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The State of Women: Progress is Relative by Caroline Simard, Vice President of Research and Executive Programs

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»

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