IT Start-ups: Where are the Women? February 13, 2007 Why do women receive less than five percent of the funding to start IT firms? Why do they lag behind men in patenting IT ideas Read More »
Women and Wages February 6, 2007 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 Read More »
A Girl’s First Java Class January 30, 2007 Recently, Lucy Sanders of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) had lunch with Sun’s “Succeeding @ Sun as a Woman Engineer” (SASWE) Read More »
Winter 2007 January 29, 2007 NCWIT Newsletter – Winter 2007 In This Issue Entrepreneurial Buzz November Meetings Re-cap Welcome, New Board Members New Digs for NCWIT NCWIT Programs-in-a-Box We’re Blogging Read More »
The Kuwait Conference of Women Leaders in Science, Technology and Engineering January 23, 2007 I recently had the pleasure of participating in the Conference of Women Leaders in Science, Technology and Engineering, in Kuwait, January 8-10. The conference was Read More »
Women & IT Entrepreneurship January 15, 2007 As of 2006, according to The Center for Women’s Business Research, there were about 7.7 million majority-women-owned (51 percent or more) businesses in this country, Read More »
Creating Your Own K-12 Outreach Program January 9, 2007 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 Read More »
IT’s Need for the Feminine Touch January 2, 2007 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 Read More »
Holiday Gifts: the Gorillapod December 25, 2006 If you came up short while shopping for your techno-geek or gadget-hound this year, or if you’ll be returning merchandise for a credit and you’re Read More »
Best Buy’s ROWE Endeavor December 19, 2006 The blog I wrote on the problem with the phrase “work-life balance” really struck a chord. It was picked up by the Boulder Daily Camera, Read More »