Tracy Chou is a software engineer at Pinterest, a job she apparently unabashedly loves. "It’s the first place, in school or professionally, that I’ve not been aware or made aware of my gender, ever, in any situation," she's written. "I don’t feel like a female engineer." But to Chou, in order to figure out exactly…
On Friday, the New York Times published an article pointing out that as Twitter files to trade stock publicly, its board contains no women. In fact, the only woman who holds a top position is a lawyer who joined the company was promoted in August. And then the hubbub began.
New York magazine's Dan Amira got an interview with the recently fired Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson and while we can assume Dickinson did the interview in order to try to take control of his rapidly deteriorating image as a smart and articulate person, it's clear now that he should probably stop trying.
Wikipedia, the collaborative encyclopedia that's edited by you (if you're a dude), me (if I were a dude), and all the dudes you know, launched in 2001 and quickly became the place to find quick info on pretty much any topic under the sun. Remember writing research papers before Wikipedia? Man, we were all such chumps…
Last night, news broke that Yahoo's new CEO — former Google fixture Marissa Mayer — is six months pregnant. Her new employer was fully aware of the pregnancy when they brought her on, and did it anyway. They didn't care. Zero fucks given. Congratulations and "atta girl"'s echoed through the Twitter echo chamber. But…
Even though 2010's The Social Network renewed mainstream interest in the tech industry for the first time since the dot-com boom (and crash) of the early aughts, the narrative in the media about Silicon Valley has remained the same, a rather dated one about boy wonders—like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram's…
After cofounding Twitter, web entrepreneur Jack Dorsey got busy building Square, the web company of the future. Square will allow mobile devices to accept credit and debit card payments. It will also feature an entirely male staff of interns, and all of the interns will eat sandwiches with the crusts cut off and…
It's already hard for tech entrepreneurs to convince investors that a canine dating service, let's just say, that matches like-tempered dogs on play dates would be awesome, and that they're just the sort of visionaries to make such a company profitable. Investors don't just throw money away most of the time — they…
Though the preponderance of Twitter sexism, wide-eyed girlfriend memes, and the startling dearth of female leadership at the majority of venture capital-backed companies, the tech industry doesn't revolve around men. At least, it shouldn't revolve around men, according to The Atlantic's senior editor Alexis Madrigal,…
Sexism in Silicon Valley is a hot topic right now, thanks to Ellen Pao, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against a former coworker who she claims acted inappropriately around her for years. But the way some outlets are covering the issue makes it clear that we…
In an interview with Mother Jones, Jen Pahlka — web guru, "rock-star" in the computer-gaming world and founder of Code for America — explains how technology can fix what's broken in American cities. But she also talks about a tech-oriented future in which women will need to step up:
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In an effort to crack the glass ceiling hanging stubbornly over the heads of women in the tech industry, Etsy, the giant online flea market (but the charming kind, not the gross kind that's full of old Sega games and iffy produce), is offering 10 $5,000 grants for female programmers needing financial assistance to…
On Sunday, Best Buy ran an ad showcasing a bunch of tech innovators — all of whom were dudes. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt — maybe those poor ad execs just didn't know how to find cool women in tech. So we did the work for them. Here are ten awesome ladies they could've featured.
This particular summer camp isn't a place to debate the iPhone versus the Droid — it's a hands-on camp to get girls interested in engineering and manufacturing, a field in which only a quarter of the workers are women. Profiled in The Times today, the sixteen-girl camp, made up mostly of girls from low-income…
We knew Wikipedia had a lady problem. But now it's proven by science.
Men comprise three-quarters of employment in science, technology, engineering and math, and earn 14 cents more on the dollar than their female colleagues. But that's still better than the overall wage gap of 21 cents, as the Commerce Department pointed out when it released the data yesterday.
After a talk Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave at Harvard Business School, she saw a difference between the women and the men. The men asked about business; the women asked "girl questions."
Odds are you haven't heard of Jean Jennings Bartik, who died recently at age 86.
