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Lucie deLaBruere

Women In Technology Stats: What's About To Change? [2020] - 0 views

  • In 2017, just 26% of professional computing jobs were held by women.
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      Wonder how this has changed in 3 years.
  • 85% of Facebook’s global tech-related jobs are occupied by men.
  • ore promising for women, as you’ll see: 29% of all Apple leaders were women.
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  • companies with male leadership earned $58.2 billion in investments.
  • Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was one of the first programmers in history
  • In 1985, 37% of all US bachelors in Computer Sciences were women.
  • In 2018, 20% of all jobs in technology were held by women.
  • one out of three employees in Apple, Facebook, and Google was female.
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elleneoneil

How Can We Encourage More Women to Study Computer Science? - 0 views

  • 1995, 29 percent of bachelor’s degrees in computer science were awarded to women; by 2012, the most recent year for which NSF data is available, only 18 percent of computer science undergraduates were women.
  • I also know firsthand how computer science and technology make for a great career, offering a good income, work-life balance and opportunities to travel. They also offer a chance to make significant contributions to the world, by working on important societal problems.
  • more on creative problem-solving. They included topics to show the breadth of the field and the ways in which it could benefit society.
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  • the faculty assigned team-based projects so students coded together. And most importantly, they made the courses fun.
  • A number of studies have shown that research experiences for undergraduate students increase retention and confidence in STEM fields, factors that are particularly important for women and minorities.
  • students get to see role models and are excited about the many amazing technology career paths they can pursue.
  • The National Science Foundation’s most recent (2012) report shows that computer science has the lowest proportion of women receiving bachelor degrees of all the STEM fields. The percentage dipped to a mere 11 percent from 2007 to 2009 and gradually returned to 14 percent by 2013 to 2014.
Cathy Knight

Women Tech Moguls Inspire Us To Break The Glass Ceiling - Women 2.0 - 0 views

  • “Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder,” states Sandberg. She describes how Lori Goler, now Global Head of People at Facebook, first asked Sheryl about how she could work with her at Facebook, “I think I want to apply to work with you at Facebook, so I thought about calling you and telling you about all the things I’m good and all the things I like doing, but I figured everyone is doing that. So I just want to know what is your biggest problem and how can I solve it.”
  • AOL’s MAKERS Conference brought together the most influential women across the country to empower and inspire women and young girls to break the glass ceiling and strive for equality.
Cathy Knight

Beyond job boards and networking: Technology helps women break through glass ceilings -... - 0 views

  • Despite technology companies striving to hire women software developers, only one out of every six developers are female, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Women can go to the site and begin designing their playbook with “To-Do” items, tracking weekly accomplishments, building a personal brand, searching for advisers and coaches, and taking advantage of career-boosting services. “Our goal is to knit all that together and essentially path you because it is overwhelming. Woman want the relevant information in their busy lives that [they] can action on,” Skeete Tatum noted. She also added that women need to build a “Board” of coaches, mentors and sponsors to guide them through career choices. She described coaches as high-power experts that provide insight and recognize patterns that move people forward; mentors as individuals who influence and help examine idead; and sponsors as the door openers and network builders.
Cathy Knight

Here's the Real Reason There Are Not More Women in Technology - 0 views

  • explaining the urgent need for women to pursue at least one  technology path, “and we need to do a better job of exposing women to technology related jobs,”
  • We’ve done lots of research on why young women don’t choose tech careers and number one is they think it’s not interesting. Number two, they think they wouldn’t be good at it. Number three, they think they will be working with a number of people that they just wouldn’t feel comfortable or happy working alongside.”
  • At a time when girls in general comprise about 46% of the advanced placement calculus test takers but that approximately 80% of them don’t end up taking a computer science class, clearly something is not working.
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  • We simply do not have enough women choosing tech careers.
  • From the research results, PSB found that 74% of teens that considered engineering did so only after being explained the economic benefits and impact they can have on the world.
elleneoneil

Statistics | National Girls Collaborative Project - 1 views

  • In 2012, 11.2% of bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering, 8.2% of master’s degrees in science and engineering, and 4.1% of doctorate degrees in science and engineering were awarded to minority women
  • Women make up half of the total U.S. college-educated workforce, but only 29% of the science and engineering workforce
  • Minority women comprise fewer than 1 in 10 employed scientists and engineer
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    Statistics on diverse learners in STEM fields (including minorities and women)
Cathy Knight

Women in Tech: The Missing Demographic - Harvard Political Review - 0 views

  • essary first step to changing the underrepresentation of women in the technical workforce. Young women are more likely to enter and succeed in fields in which they can see themselves. However, this can only be achieved when female students have the same opportunities as male students to succeed in STEM fields during high school and college, and then encounter successful role models in the professional world.
  • essary first step to changing the underrepresentation of women in the technical workforce.
Cathy Knight

Tech World's Glass Ceiling Begins to Crack for Women | WIRED - 0 views

  • Sources have said that less than 6% of U.S. employed women work in the computer industry, and that only 2 percent have a degree in the engineering or computer science fields.
  • that so many women — not always highlighted in the media — have led the way and have shown how many paths there can be toward success in technology-related businesses.
Cathy Knight

5 Of The Most Powerful Women In Technology - 0 views

  • The tech industry today remains a boy’s club, with only 26 percent of jobs filled by women at any given point. The average woman faces a 3:1 male-to-female gender ratio in the industry, and it only gets worse higher up the management ladder.
Cathy Knight

Study: Women Avoiding Cybersecurity Careers | GlassCeiling - 0 views

  • The study, “Securing Our Future: Closing the Cyber Talent Gap,” finds low overall awareness of the field: In the U.S., 67% of men and 77% of women said no high school or secondary school teacher, guidance or career counselor ever mentioned the idea of a cybersecurity career.
  • “Not only are we missing obvious opportunity to remediate a global shortfall of cybersecurity workers, but we’re also seeing the problem compounded by leaving women behind when it comes to cybersecurity education, programs and careers,”
kaliasnow

STEM Fields and the Gender Gap: Where are the Women? - 1 views

  • where is the female equivalent of Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg?
  • Create programs that will encourage women to study tech.
  • Rework the K-12 curriculum.
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  • Combat stereotypes.
  • encourage young girls to pursue opportunities in STEM by offering more hands-on workshops for girls to learn about science and technology.
slshield

Gender Equality | Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ... - 0 views

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    Gender-based discrimination in education is both a cause and a consequence of deep-rooted disparities in society. Poverty, geographical isolation, ethnic background, disability, traditional attitudes about their status and role all undermine the ability of women and girls to exercise their rights.
leahammond

Why I Am Not a Maker - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    " Why I Am Not a Maker When tech culture only celebrates creation, it risks ignoring those who teach, criticize, and take care of others. "
Cathy Knight

Females in tech are still bumping up against the glass ceiling | ITworld - 0 views

  • The percentage of tech workers who are woman has remained flatThe companies that ABI looked at had about 435,00 technology workers in total. While the overall number of women technologists increased from 2013 to 2014 by 3,500 workers, the percentage of those workers who are female remained at about 25%, compared to 32% of the overall workforce at participating companies.
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