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As a winner of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Educator Award in Puerto Rico, I would like to thank everyone at NCWIT and at Google for the opportunity they are

Did you know that U.S. schools with a majority of African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with little experience as majority white schools in the same district? Recently

Did you know that a recent study of doctors in ICU environments finds that having a physician “co-pilot” can reduce the patient mortality rate by 50 percent?  Researchers at Northwestern

Did you know about the women-in-medicine debate going on over at The New York Times? Last weekend, Dr. Karen Sibert wrote an essay decrying the number of women doctors who

Did you know how the state of the economy is impacting computer science education in Washington state? Two stories about technology education in the state caught our eye recently: one

Last call: Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women applications due June 30!  Ernst & Young currently is accepting applications for its Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program. You can

We had a great time at our annual NCWIT Summit last month in New York City, and for all of those who attended – we hope you did, too! We’ve

Today in New York City, we kicked off our annual summit at the Kimmel Center at NYU. Our first keynotes delivered lively and thought-provoking speeches. Scott Page discussed “Diversity and

Hello from New York City! We’re excited to be here at NYU’s Kimmel Center (hosted by the Games for Learning Institute) to kick off our annual Summit on Women and

More than 1,000 admitted “prefrosh” to MIT’s class of 2015 gathered on campus recently for 72 fun-filled, education-packed hours. Students came from across the country, and across the world for

We’re aware that gender stereotypes are one of the challenges in attracting more women into technology occupations; but did you know that they’re also a cause of salary discrepancies once

The topic of women in IT is on my mind. As our feature article explains, despite being more IT literate than ever, young women don’t seem to be moving into

The education industry, a sector of the economy as large as the pharmaceutical industry, spends just 0.1% on research and development efforts — an amount that Karen Cator, Director of

Let me begin by offering my sincerest thanks to NCWIT, including the Ohio affiliate members, for the work they do and the outreach effort that caused our Guidance Department to

A study released this week by global consulting firm McKinsey finds that a paucity of coaching and career development is to blame for the lack of women advancing to higher-level

Ivy League Decision Day this year was one week ago. Naturally, most of the day, spirits ran high. My friends fell into one of two categories: the ignoramus or the

If kids are the innovators of the future, then what tools should we be teaching them so they can grow up to create great things? According to one group, the

Did you know that women rank their relationship with their boss as the most important factor in whether they stay at a company? A recent survey of women in global

Did you know that stereotype threat applies to women and entrepreneurship, causing many women either to not even consider starting their own companies or to consider themselves incapable of doing

On Sunday, March 6, NCWIT held the Oregon and SW Washington Region Affiliate Award Celebration for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. Twenty regional winners were recognized, and one

Last week my high school computer science teacher, Baker Franke, and I spoke on Capitol Hill about the importance of computer science in the K-12 curriculum. Our testimony was part

Did you know that  new research on men and women in information systems occupations finds that cognitive differences between the genders cause them to think about women’s technical participation in

Many of you probably took note of our own Jane Margolis being interviewed in The New York Times a few weeks ago for an article on the dearth of women

This week the Wall Street Journal reported on new findings that show a $16,819 pay gap between male and female doctors. According to the study, this discrepancy exists even when

Research from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln this week illustrates a unique type of stereotype threat: being ogled. In a study supposedly looking at “teamwork,” researchers asked specially trained