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I don’t always read my Systers mail. It accumulates in a mailbox until I have the time to indulge myself in its wealth of information, insights, encouragement and opportunities for […]

A few of us from NCWIT were in New York City the last week in May to attend a much-anticipated premiere … no, not the “Sex and the City” movie,

Having been out of the fray for a bit (I am currently at Oxford completing an MBA) it was exhilarating to return to the U.S. for the NCWIT meetings at

NCWIT has added another Program-in-a-Box to our resource library: Computer Science-in-a-Box: Unplug Your Curriculum. This box introduces fundamental building blocks of computer science to K-12 students — without using computers!

Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) is embarking on a critical research project to measure the perceptions of career opportunities for women in technology, and to collect insights on women’s experiences,

Thanks to a genourous grant from the National Science Foundation and support from Electronic Arts, P4Games at the Univeristy of Denver invites applications from girls going into 9th and 10th

BusinessWeek has a special report out now on the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. The report includes several features that look at groups of young technology innovators: Twentysomething Entrepreneurs, Tech’s

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) is now accepting nominations for three of its awards: the Anita Borg Social Impact Award; the Anita Borg Award for Technical

This is the second of two interviews that Ginger Makela conducted with women technologists at Google. Ginger is a Social Media Specialist at Google and serves as NCWIT’s pro-bono web

Fewer and fewer women are joining the IT field these days — the official statistic is that there’s been a 70 percent decline in the number of undergraduate women choosing

Just in time for this year’s International Women’s Day, a new support group for women in IT was established in Australia. An article from iTnews reported on this group, called

International Women’s Day is today, and organizations in all parts of the world are celebrating in their own unique way. Trinidad and Tobago’s local theme is “Investing in Women and

Where is your organization looking for IT leadership and innovation? Are women playing a key role in shaping your company’s future? Is your company making the most of diversity? Are

It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow, March 8. All this week individuals and organizations around the globe have been celebrating the contributions of women and using this occasion to focus on

We’re very excited that the next Grace Hopper Celebration in Computing (GHC) will take place right here in Colorado, October 1-4, at the Keystone Resort. If anything beats the beauty

On February 14, 1946, ENIAC – the world’s first digital electronic computer – was unveiled. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was the world’s first operational, general-purpose,

Are you a computer science major? Your opinions are in demand. Pearson, one of the leading education publishers, is seeking participants to serve on its Pearson Student Advisory Board (PSAB).

A few years ago I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a major in English Lit. When I tell people I now work in the tech industry (and have started several

Are you a senior undergrad or a graduate student studying computer science? Are you passionate about your work, and using computing to make the world a better place? How about

ChicTech, an outreach program of the University of Illinois’ Department of Computer Science, extends an open invitation for college women to participate in the third annual Games for Girls Programming

I caught up on some reading over the holidays. In particular, [begin link /who.staff.joanne.html]Joanne Cohoon[end link] sent me an article entitled “[begin link /pdf/Weinberger_IEEE.pdf]Just Ask! Why Surveyed Women Did Not

As if I didn’t already have enough to do in my First Life, I logged on for a Second Life. Second Life (SL) is “a 3-D virtual world entirely created

This brief paper concludes the Gender and IT Entrepreneurship project that we conducted for NCWIT with support from the Kauffman Foundation. In this final paper, we present a high-level overview

My mother always knew that the most effective way to get me to do something was not to force me. Commands like, “Clean your room,” were never spoken. Instead, she

Some of you may have seen the article in today’s NY Times, “Study Compares States’ Math and Science Scores With Other Countries’”, about a recent research report that compares 8th