PayPal Advertises All-Male Gender Equality Panel
Aspirationally woke tech company PayPal is attempting to solve tech’s gender gap with an all-male panel.
Alex St. John's Daughter Responds to Her Father's 'Vile and Wrong' Thoughts on Diversity in Tech
Women ripping their semi-famous, misogynist dads is what the internet was made for.
84 Percent of Experienced Women in Tech Have Been Told They're Too Aggressive
Cool, cool, cool, cool.
Let’s Stop Constantly Asking Powerful Women About Their Babies
Efforts to slay the work-life balance dragons are finally center stage—studies, books, and powerful women have made it a buzzy cause du jour. But that doesn’t mean every single woman with a corporate success story should be expected to discuss this issue at length, especially in contexts meant to highlight their…
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Resigns
Only a few days after a band of angry redditors demanded her resignation, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao is inadvertently giving them exactly what they wanted.
Here Are All the Women Apple Has Ever Put On Stage [Updating]
Diversity in tech is a widespread problem, and Apple is actually going to address it today. In an interview with Mashable, Tim Cook admitted that Apple needs more diversity—and hinted that today’s keynote at WWDC will feature at least one woman. Which would make this the seventh woman ever to be on the Apple stage.
Your Dating App Is Probably Not Going to Fix Dating for Women
Here's some hot tech news about a hot new app with a hot new idea: Bumble is a forthcoming app that appears to be yet another product devoted to creating "a safe and respectful community" for single women looking to find love. They're working to weed out the charming boneheads who frequent the dating apps you're…
No Love for Lovelace: A Closer Read of Walter Isaacson's Innovators
I'm glad Walter Isaacson is getting such an outpouring of love from reviewers and talk-show hosts for including Ada Lovelace in The Innovators, his new history of the digital revolution.1 Thanks to Isaacson, Lovelace is finally receiving at least a few bytes of the attention she deserves for having written the first…
AOL CEO To Lead Venture Fund Aimed At Female-Led Startups
AOL CEO Susan Lyne is stepping down for a position with an in-house AOL venture fund aimed at supporting digital startups led by women. Lyne, who was the CEO of AOL's brand group, will the lead the the project.
Women Won't Name Harassing Venture Capitalists, Even Anonymously
In the past couple weeks both Forbes and Wired have published first-hand accounts of the perils of "fundraising while female." The anecdotes about harassment, discrimination, and the hassle of disproving an investor's assumptions about gender are familiar. But you won't find the name of single male venture…
Women in Tech Run a Gauntlet of Sexist Bullshit
If you're a woman and you want to launch a tech company, there's a damn good chance you're going to face some moments of abject sexism.
Google is 70 Percent Men and 61 Percent White
After years of pressure, Google has released the breakdown of exactly who works for them. To Google, these numbers show that the company is being transparent about the strides they're making to address a real issue. To everyone else, they're pretty much better late than never.
The Night I was the Belle of the Ball
Today, I will tell you what now seems like an impossible story, but it's a true story. It starts out like "This one time, I was at band camp…" only, it wasn't band camp; it was "computer camp." Summer 1984, I entered an unpopular girl and I left the Belle of the Ball.
GoldieBlox Means Well But Doesn't Live Up to the Hype
GoldieBlox has inspired much enthusiasm among adults. The concept—disrupt the pink aisle! provide girls with an alternative to princess-mania!—is the stuff TED talks and viral videos are made of. But are the toys actually any good? Those videos aren't just a P.S.A. campaign—they're advertisements. And there, the…
Model-Slash-Coder Shatters a Dozen Tired Stereotypes
If you have preconceived notions about models being dumb and coders being nerdy white dudes, prepare to abandon them. Lyndsey Scott has modeled for brands like DKNY, Victoria's Secret, Gucci and Prada. But she also knows Python, Objective C, and iOS, and builds apps in her spare time.
The CEO of Twitter Wants These Female Comedians to Use Twitter
On Friday's Today show, Matt Lauer interviewed Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. While the conversation skimmed the surface of revealing any actual information – Twitter is so hip and cool! Sometimes people send mean tweets! Man everyone there is young! – Costolo subtly tried to smooth over the company's "woman problem" with…
Fox Anchor Wonders If Ladybrains Keep Women From Running Companies
Today, an anchor at Fox Business wondered aloud during a broadcast if the "female brain" is to blame for the glass ceiling. I dunno, dude. Is the male brain to blame for saying idiotic shit on television?
It's Actually Been a Decent Year for Women in Tech
Perhaps it's the intense focus on hiring practices, but InfoWorld is reporting that based off of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women in computer science-related fields have gotten more jobs this year than men have.
How Hollywood Helps Deter Women from Computer Science
The New York Times today would like to suggest that storytelling is powerful, that, in the whole art/life dynamic, it’s life that imitates art, not the other way around, at least not when it comes to kids imagining viable career paths for themselves. For instance, too many “Dilbert” perusals and Office Space viewings…
