Participating Companies:

Global Broadcast Network presentation: "It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's a Sticky Floor," by Rebecca Shambaugh. March 13, 2008 11:30-12:30 CST. Tour of the Susan B. Anthony House and talk on the suffragette movement (Rochester, NY). March 14, 2008 11:00-2:00 ET.

HP is sponsoring events in several countries around the globe.

Canada: HP Canada is hosting a Women in Leadership Panel on March 7th at the Spectrum office. Employees are invited to listen to the stories of Canadian female leaders and discuss their career paths, balancing family obligations, challenges, successes, etc. in this Q & A panel discussion.

Mexico: 200 women from HP and various Mexico City companies will attend a March 10th workshop on women, career, and family.

Brazil: An event recognizing women's contributions will provide a gift to all women employees with a special quote symbolizing the day. Date TBD.

All Intel events will be held in March, with many on March 7th. Circuit, the Intel Intranet, will feature articles and photos from the worldwide celebrations.

Second Annual International Women's Day Breakfast for Corporate Technology Group.
A breakfast (or lunch at our smaller sites) hosted by our senior technical leaders for all of the women in the Group.

CTG (Corporate Technology Group) Connections Newsletter: Special Edition.
A special-edition newsletter that celebrates Intel's women leaders with spotlights on Intel women worldwide and recognition from CTO and Director of CTG, Justin Rattner.

The WIN View.
A panel discussion with technical and non-technical male leaders discussing issues successful women face in their climb to the upper echelons.

WOW'EM EXPO: Poster Gallery to Accent Your Most Excellent Work.
Intel employees are invited to submit an abstract describing original, innovative, and creative work accomplishments in a wide range of topics related to Intel business (either technical or non technical projects). A contest will award prizes to the top three posters.

International activities.
Celebrations in the Philippines, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, and Russia will feature panel discussions, workshops, Q&A sessions, and parties.

Microsoft Global Women's Professional Development Series Webcast
Microsoft is hosting a second annual global webcast to over 1,000 Microsoft women worldwide in 100 locations! This three-hour webcast event will feature an incredible line-up of internal speakers and our guest speaker on Negotiation Skills will be Dr. Lisa Barron, professor of Organization and Management at The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. The purpose of the event is to bring employees together to view the webcast, network, and participate in personal and professional development activities.

Istanbul
Round Table meeting on March 10th with the following objectives:

• Explore the experience of women particularly with respect to leadership opportunities, work-life balance and organizational culture
• Help women develop their own leadership style
• Identify actions to encourage diversity and inclusion throughout the organization

Ireland
"Success - What it Means to Me" event to take place on March 12th. Discussions will focus on the value of networking, role models, work life balance and how to successfully promote yourself.

France
Over 100 Microsoft women employees will gather on March 10th for a structured lunch event including an external keynote speaker.

Nortel is sponsoring IWD events for women and men in nearly 20 countries!

A taped panel discussion with Nortel women technologists will feature questions from Nortel women's groups in the U.S., China, Indonesia, Canada, Italy, Mexico and Brazil, and will be distributed to Nortel Women's Business Council (WBC) groups around the globe.

Nortel's major sites are all holding local professional development and networking events, such as vendor fairs, speakers, and outreach to high school girls.

Nortel WBCs set up a Facebook section in the Nortel Facebook area as well as a special IWD Facebook event.

The CEO and CTO will be blogging on the critical need for diversity and how it links to innovation.

The Nortel internal website will feature summaries and photos from the live events, as will the Facebook site and internal blogs.

QWISE (Qualcomm Women in Science and Engineering) will sponsor and participate in the following events:

March 7: eCard greeting to Qualcomm women engineers

March 7-8: FIRST Robotics Competition

March 10: QWISE new member recruiting

March 12: Inaugural issue of QWISE newsletter

March 12: Qualcomm Women Engineers networking event

March 13: Brownbag presentation, "A Goddess Guide to Professional Success"

Menlo Park, California USA - Sun's Women-West group is hosting a campus-wide donation drive during the first week in March to collect toiletries for women in need, working with the Support Network For Battered Women to deliver donations where they will do the most good.

St. Petersburg, Russia - Sun's development center celebrates the Russian State Holiday of International Women's Day each year with a party in honor of women and Springtime. The annual event is hosted by the men to honor the women.

Bangalore, India - As it did last year, Sun's India Engineering Center will distribute gifts to women staff, and some groups will host women's lunches. The site leadership is also working to expand the observance into a half-day event with speakers.

Celebrate International Women's Day by celebrating women in IT!

Where is your organization looking for IT leadership and innovation? Are you building a globally competitive organization by tapping into diverse perspectives? Are women playing a key role in shaping your company's future?

Join NCWIT and a network of companies in using International Women's Day, March 8, as an opportunity to publicize, promote, and improve women's participation in IT. The persistent underrepresentation of women in the rapidly growing, critical field of IT inhibits innovation by omitting the diverse perspectives and life experiences women bring to invention and problem-solving; and it perpetuates and even exacerbates the social and economic disparities for women everywhere. Acknowledging women's contributions to IT and striving for greater participation is an ideal way to honor the spirit of International Women's Day.

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IWD Links

United Nations History of IWD

United Nations WomenWatch

Global IWD Consortium

IWD on Flickr Photosharing

IWD & IT - NCWIT Scorecard

IWD & Innovation - NCWIT Patent Report

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