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12 Apr Top 10 U.S. cities for women in technology
It’s no secret that Silicon Valley tech companies have a gender equality problem. Of the companies that released diversity reports last year, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google ranked among the worst, reporting that between 13 percent and 18 percent of its tech jobs were held by women.
12 Apr Women in Technology, Diverse City Careers combine resources in IT gender equality push
The Women in Technology QLD (WiT) organisation and Diverse City Careers (DCC), a job site for women, have joined forces to combine their efforts on the advancement of women in technology industries.11 Apr The Techies Project And Why Unpaid Labor for Diversity in Tech Needs to Stop
This week, the Techies Project — featuring the photos and stories of underrepresented technologists in Silicon Valley — launched to widespread acclaim. Funded by Medium and Facebook, and led by photographer Helena Price, developer Martha Schumann and designer Alonzo Felix, the site features over 100 people, with plans to roll out many more throughout the year.
11 Apr Picturing ‘techies’: photo project captures the unseen diversity of Silicon Valley
Prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently wrote that “software coding is quite possibly the most inviting, inclusive profession ever” and linked to a study reporting that many coders are self taught. What he didn’t notice: the study also says the profession is 92.8% men.