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October 2016

A student writes on the blackboard at the Zabuli School in Deh-Subz, Afghanistan. (Beth Murphy/GroundTruth Films)
Middle East

Film premiere 10/31: Inside one girls’ school in war-torn Afghanistan

In Afghanistan today, there is no social issue more controversial than women’s rights. And nothing cuts to the...

Oct 27, 2016
A man looks out on the Marina in Lake Mead, Nevada. (Photo by Charlotte Weiner/GroundTruth)
Environment

One family’s struggle with a drying Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir

LAKE MEAD, Nevada – Twenty five million Americans rely on a water source that is slowly drying up. Lake...

Oct 26, 2016
Rights

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out other tech execs on gender pay gap

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spent $3 million last year adjusting salaries to ensure that men and women are...

Oct 22, 2016
Pam August is the flight operations directorate at NASA. She Manages flight control for astronauts and mechanical maintenance for the space systems. (Photo by Peter Maroulis/GroundTruth)
Rights

We talked to women at NASA, where one third of employees are female

Twenty-five miles southeast of a massive gathering of 15,000 women and men for the Grace Hopper Celebration of...

Oct 21, 2016
Americas

Things could be better for trans women in tech

The workplace is not always friendly to trans people, and tech is no exception. At the Grace Hopper...

Oct 21, 2016
Megan Smith, CTO of the United States, speaks at a recruiting event at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas.
Rights

Voices from the world’s largest gathering of female technologists

The Grace Hopper Women Celebration of Women in Computing drew 14,000 women and 1,000 men from 83 different...

Oct 21, 2016
Americas

How women and men experience VR differently

Gemma Busoni is a recent high school graduate and co-founder of Discovr, a VR startup based in Los...

Oct 21, 2016
Rebecca Parson, CTO of ThoughtWorks, accepted the 2016 award for Top Companies for Women Technologists, presented by the Anita Borg Institute. (O'Reily Conference/Flickr)
Rights

We sat down with the CTO of tech’s most women-friendly company. Here’s what she said.

HOUSTON — Thousands of women and men gathered in an NBA arena to launch the Grace Hopper Celebration of...

Oct 20, 2016
Thousands of women in the tech industry gathered at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas, this week. (Photo by Rachel Rohr/GroundTruth)
Americas

14,000 women showed up in Texas to address tech’s gender gap

HOUSTON — The largest gathering of female technologists in the world, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing,...

Oct 20, 2016
Kara Swisher, an influential journalist known for reporting of the tech industry and for creating, producing and hosting All Things Digital, the Wall Street Journal's technology conference. (Dan Harber/Flickr)
Americas

‘The most powerful tech reporters happen to be women’

Kara Swisher is one of the most influential women in tech, without actually working for a tech company....

Oct 19, 2016
Misogyny and violence against women are prevalent in several best-selling games, despite the fact that 45 percent of gamers are women.
Americas

Years of exclusion led to misogynistic video games

You’re a woman in a living room full of friends, and one of the guys grabs a controller...

Oct 19, 2016
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