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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

We all attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 conference recently, and hats off to the Anita Borg Institute for doing such a super job of running

Thomas Friedman had an interesting piece in last week’s NY Times about “Generation Q” – the generation of young people today whom he calls The Quiet Americans – and why

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday last week at EmTech ’07 — the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT — a conference produced by Technology Review. The conference included an extraordinary number

Is the U.S. ceding its position as the most innovative country on the globe? To the degree that innovation depends on a domestic population that is well educated in innovation’s

I am an experimental multimedia artist, student, and teacher living in Denver, CO. My latest artistic pursuits are a combination of various mediums including still image, video, sound, sculpture, light,

Last week Ben Worthen, who writes the Wall Street Journal’s Business Technology blog, posted a provocatively titled piece called, “Do Women Hate IT?” NCWIT provided some statistics and a few

Earlier this month my husband and I packed up ourselves and our sons and headed off to Texas: first to Dallas, and then a long drive over to east Texas,

There is a new U.S. House of Representatives Caucus focused on Diversity and Innovation, something we are quite happy about. In fact, NCWIT had a hand in its formation. Back

On a recent Sunday, I was listening to my husband and brother-in-law talk incessantly about World of Warcraft. I was just starting to get frustrated by the conversation when, between

I’m a school psychologist who has been taking computer classes part-time for the past four years. I’m the mother of two daughters, so I have a personal interest in the

Applications for grants to participate in the SC07 Technical Program under the Broader Engagement Initiative are being accepted through Friday, June 29. The SC Broader Engagement (BE) initiative is aimed

I had the pleasure this week of teaching a one-day session on entrepreneurship at Wellesley College, as part of a three-week course called Management Basics offered to Wellesley students and

Women in Computing group members from Indiana University, Rice University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder are organizing a workshop at SIGCSE 2007 to help administrators, faculty, staff, and

A friend recently sent me a copy of a report from IT advisory firm Cutter Consortium entitled “The Defeminization of IT.” The report highlights the trends that form the basis

Americans are in danger of losing their competitive edge in the world economic system. This idea seems to have widespread, bipartisan support, which is rarely heard of in Washington these

The phrase “work-life balance” has become a ubiquitous term in most lexicons and it yields about 2 million hits on Google. For many, and I used to be one of

I was excited to share the stage at the Google Faculty Summit with Lucy Sanders and her CS colleagues — and flattered to be a former literature professor in a

Recently I met with the director of youth activities at a local community center in Seattle. We were sitting together in the center’s new computer facility, home to twelve work-stations,

What do technical innovation and diversity have to do with one another? Very little, apparently, if you follow the press coverage of our nation’s current competitiveness debate. Innovation legislation drafted

For all of the problems that his remarks revealed and engendered, Larry Summers deserves thanks for catapulting the issue of women’s under-representation in math, science and technology to a level