Today is Blog Action Day and the cause is ending poverty. Did you know that 70% of those living in poverty around the world are women? With the financial crisis looming and gas and necessities costs soaring you may be scrimping and saving for your own family but there are ways you can still help. [...]
According to Bob Sutton’s blog, Work Matters, a new article in the Harvard Business Review by Professor Boris Gryosberg states that further research on a past article that superstars aren’t portable shows that while male superstars may show a decrease in performance at a new firm, female superstars continue to shine after changing companies. Two [...]
From Entrepreneur.com “Just like in the 1990s, today’s coverage of web companies like Facebook and YouTube dominates the media. But just as it was a decade ago, the faces behind the Web 2.0 wonders are mostly male. Are women not running technology companies–or are they simply not getting media coverage? Statistics on the number of [...]
Since returning to the Kansas City area I am met with a wall of internal frustration. Where did all the women’s user groups go? Where are all the pro science, math, and technology girls programs? I used to run a local Web Girls chapter and attempted to keep a local group of women’s linux users [...]
From ZDnet.co.uk: Women are finding it more difficult to break into the IT profession than to progress up the career ladder once they have their foot in the door, research has found. In a survey of 100 female IT professionals by IT training company The Training Camp, 67 percent said it’s more difficult to even [...]
The student scholarship deadline has been extended! Applications are now due by midnight CDT (UTC -5) on June 18. Scholarships will cover conference registration (which includes most meals), lodging, and an upper limit for airfare based on the geographic region of the applicant. GHC Student Scholarships are made possible by generous grants from the Anita [...]
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons I am about half way through this book and I think it is a MUST READ for both men and women. Every girl in the US (perhaps elsewhere) has been on at least one side or the other of a girl bully… [...]
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