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Rights

Tracy Chou, one of the co-founders of Project Include, speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt 2015. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
Rights

Women in tech spell out solutions to the industry’s diversity problem

Farmer Hafizallah with his two daughters, Maryam, 23, and Goldasta, 24, in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountain valley. The father's income, made from harvesting grapes and selling raisins, has dropped by 85 percent in recent years because of a drought exacerbated by climate change. (Photo via GroundTruth Films)
Rights

Girls’ Education in Afghanistan

Girls’ Education in Afghanistan: A 'Magic Bullet' For Solving Climate Issues Farmer Hafizallah with his two daughters, Maryam,...

Nov 10, 2016
At a time when 50 percent of young adults say that they’re fearful for the future of their country, these mock elections may be important teaching tools (Ian Aberle/Flickr)
Democracy

Why voting in mock elections may lead to the real thing

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Past the metal detectors and inside the brick walls of Springfield’s High School of Commerce,...

Nov 07, 2016
A young child plays under the supervision of childcare workers at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, a renown tech conference. (Photo by Alicia Miles/GroundTruth)
Rights

This is why childcare is key to retaining talent in the tech industry

By Alicia Mies and Peter Maroulis HOUSTON — Lucy Leon, glasses perched on her head, shuffles papers with the...

Nov 07, 2016
Rights

What it’s like to have male mentors as a woman in tech

Susan Kelly, a director of technology at Verizon’s Innovation Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been in the tech...

Nov 01, 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
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
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
Rights

The ‘unanswered questions’ about gender and tech

My first introduction to the world of technology came from the inside of a dumpster. My father, a...

Oct 18, 2016
Women hold just 22.5 percent of top leadership roles in across major tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
Rights

Women will revolutionize tech, but they have to be included first

Gender in tech is often discussed as a tacked-on afterthought – a program to encourage more equal participation,...

Oct 18, 2016
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