October 2016

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)

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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)

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)

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)

‘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.