How she used Facebook to connect thousands of women in tech

Melissa Wylie |BizWomen | 22 November 2016

“Allison Esposito’s experience working in technology was a bit unusual.

While at e-book startup Oyster, Esposito had a strong community of women she worked alongside. But she knew this was not typical for many women in tech, who often feel alienated from male coworkers.

Esposito and her female colleagues started a casual coffee meet-up in New York City for women who were looking to meet other women in their field. They got a surprisingly overwhelming response.”

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College’s computer-science diversity a lesson for tech firms

Matt Day | The Seattle Times | 21 November 2016

“The typical computer-science graduating class at an American university is less than 20 percent female.

At Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, Calif., women make up 54 percent of the class of 2016.

The experience of the private, 829-student school may not provide a complete road map for the rest of academia, but Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd’s president for the past 10 years, says it carries lessons for other organizations.”

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Why so few women in tech? Sarah Imbach explains (Video)

Casey Coombs | Puget Sound Business Journal | 21 November 2016

“What’s it like for a woman who’s risen through the ranks of a male-dominated industry?

We asked angel investor Sarah Imbach, who recently joined the board of Seattle software startup Outreach. She held back-to-back executive positions in Silicon Valley at LinkedIn and PayPal before moving to the Puget Sound region in 2010.”

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As tech industry grapples with diversity questions, Microsoft targets executives’ pay

Gina Hall | Puget Sound Business Journal | 21 November 2016

“Microsoft Corp. has announced it will tie executive bonuses to workforce diversity goals as the tech industry continues to struggle to increase the number of women and minorities in the workplace.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) instituted the new bonus rule after the company witnessed a decline in its number of female employees for the second consecutive year, down to 25.8 percent from 26.8 percent, according to Bloomberg. The decline is due in large part to the company divesting itself of its Nokia handset factory, which employed a significant number of women, the report added.”

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16 Tech Jobs That Have A Gender Pay Gap

Jeff Kauflin | Forbes | 15 November 2016

“Despite widespread recognition that women are paid less than men for the same jobs, the gender pay gap lives on. It exists in virtually all occupations, even among teachers and nurses, where women dominate the field. Careers site Glassdoor used its salary data to put a spotlight on the U.S. technology industry and understand differences by job title. It analyzed more than 505,000 salaries and statistically controlled for—in other words, removed the impact of—differences in age, education, years of experience and job title.”

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Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter

David Rock & Heidi Grant | Harvard Business Review | 4 November 2016

“Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

In a global analysis of 2,400 companies conducted by Credit Suisse, organizations with at least one female board member yielded higher return on equity and higher net income growth than those that did not have any women on the board.”

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Cyber security image putting women and girls off, says panel

Warwick Ashford | ComputerWeekly.com | 3 November 2016

“There is still a lot of work to be done to change the perception of cyber security and corporate culture to attract more women to the profession, according to a panel of security professionals

The image of cyber security and the people who work in the profession is putting women and girls off from considering it as a career, according to a panel of women working at Intel Security.”

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