By Reshma Kumar at November 12, 2008 0 Comments
The Wall Street Journal has come out with a list of the Top Women to Watch in business and tech. According to the report, New York research group, Catalyst, found that “women hold 15.4% of Fortune 500 corporate-officer jobs — positions of vice president or higher that require board approval. That number has inched down from 16.4% in 2005. Women running Fortune 500 companies amount to just 2.4%, the survey showed, and 74 of those companies have no female corporate officers at all. One bright spot: More women are in charge of powerful More»
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By Reshma Kumar at July 21, 2008 0 Comments
The Business Case For Having More Women in Science & Engineering: There are a myriad of reasons – some obvious and some not so obvious – why there should have more women in science and engineering. Women are not any less smart; we’ve established that. If you are a proponent of the left brain right brain gender theory, women just think differently or approach things differently. And, herein lies the value. Women may approach a problem or challenge differently – not necessarily better – to arrive at a solution. And, this is certainly More»
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By Reshma Kumar at July 11, 2008 1 Comments
In what is nothing short of staggering, there are currently no women CEOs at the helm of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies. With VMWare’s CEO and Founder, Diane Greene, having been ousted from the company in the last week, the official count of female CEOs is down to mind-blowing ZERO! And even outside of CEO positions, the number of women in C-level and other top level positions is very low according to The Mercury News.
Previously, there were high-profile Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay until she stepped down and More»
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By Reshma Kumar at June 19, 2008 2 Comments
It is a well known fact that the number of young women gravitating to IT has been declining for some time. While this issue may be more complex than meets the eye and possibly unknown, there have been some potential reasons cited.
Science and engineering have traditionally been male dominated fields and hence, a possible reason for women shying away from it. By nature, people tend to gravitate more towards what is familiar to them, what they understand, and what/who is like them. If 80 percent of the field is men, then it is plausible that women will associate it with More»
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By Reshma Kumar at June 10, 2008 5 Comments
It is no secret that women have traditionally been under-represented in the science and engineering workforce. Yet, this field that has been growing and is considered a key component to the future development of the world. However, because this is a growing field, it is expected to foster more job opportunities. Information Technology (IT) skills are considered a new ‘basic’ skill and in the move towards the information age, more and more jobs will be created in this area. But will women be the beneficiaries of those jobs? In the past, they have not.
Where Are The Women In IT?
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By Joseph Hunkins at March 22, 2008 0 Comments
The Women on the Web - wowOwow.com, is a New York based startup with an impressive early round of investors and founders: Leslie Stahl of Sixty Minutes, publisher Joni Evans, gossiper Liz Smith, advertising executive Mary Wells, and political columnist Peggy Noonan.
Each of these founders chipped in $200,000 to the effort, which is a website targeted at smart and savvy women over 40.
As much as it would be nice to see more of those smart and savvy 40 year old women online, and see projects like this succeed as online publishing enterprises, the demographics here seem to be a More»
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