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Did you know that at many schools, computer science is fast becoming the hottest major on campus? According to Network World, “The nation’s best undergraduate computer science programs are bracing

Did you know that new research has found a correlation between use of video games and higher scores on measures of creativity?  A study of nearly 500 12-year-olds found that

Did you know that a study of law firms that use numerical ratings systems for promoting associates finds that men are three times more likely than women to be promoted

Did you know that the United States has an unemployment rate of 9.1% and the Conference Board estimates there are 3 job-seekers for every 1 available job; but in the

Did you know that some well-known technical companies are eschewing traditional recruiting and hiring methods in favor of … puzzles? An excerpt from a new book, The Rare Find, gives

NCWIT and the Woodrow Wilson Center are hosting a roundtable discussion today on “21st Century Pathways to a Skilled Technology Workforce.” This roundtable will address the critical need for increased

You may know about the pay gap between men and women, and maybe you know that women tend not to fare as well as men in salary negotiations. But did you

You can write code, but can you write haiku? This was the challenge presented to winners of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing in their Facebook Group over the summer.  The

Did you know that there’s a business case for why you should include gender diversity at your startup? Inc. Magazine this week looks at research pointing to some of the

Everyone knows Google as a search engine, email client, etc. But this summer, I was part of a different side of Google – this year’s Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI).

Did you know that a prominent article about Carol Bartz’s firing from her role as CEO of Yahoo last week also mentions that she was a “high-school homecoming queen” and a “mother

Kimberly A. is a recipient of the 2010-11 North Carolina Award for Aspirations in Computing. She is a senior and plans to study computer programming and chemical engineering in college. Samantha

  Did you know that recent research on sex hormones has found that these hormones may have a strong influence on occupational choices? Penn State researchers compared teenagers with congenital

This summer my sister and I ran an Alice workshop for middle school girls at a local college. We decided to have it at a college because we believed it would

Did you know an ongoing study finds that female STEM faculty at community colleges are in gender parity with their male peers, and have high rates of job satisfaction? A

This summer I was one of 12 students selected for an internship at Information Technology Services (ITS), a non-profit organization that monitors and supervises the entire Miami-Dade county public school

Did you know that many women may be less inclined to pursue science and tech fields because they see them as incongruent with romance? When researchers “primed” college women to think

On August 16, Singularity University Presented its second annual Women @ The Frontier Symposium at the Tech Museum in San Jose. It began with a networking recpetion and expo followed

As one of two girls that were offered an engineering internship at an engineering company in Mooresville, North Carolina, I spent the summer stretching my knowledge and broadening my horizons

Earlier this year, SSAB member Jane Margolis was interviewed by The New York Times for a story reporting on the gender gap among Wikipedia editors. Did you know that a

Did you know that the “tipping point” for ideas and beliefs can be reached with adoption from just 10% of the population? Using computational models of social cognitive networks, researchers

Did you know that the Wikimedia Foundation has created a Public Policy Initiative to improve and diversify editing at Wikipedia? You may recall that in the beginning of 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation

Did you know that the NCWIT Scorecard isn’t just a set of statistics on girls, women, computing, and IT; it also provides a terrific explanation for why women’s participation matters?

There’s a meme floating around the web about the talent war and the competition for “star” performers.  A piece at the NY Times recently discussed the trend of buying startups in order

Did you know that Google’s Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) program is sponsoring workshops at more than 60 locations this summer? CS4HS brin gs computer science professional development and computational thinking workshops