by Shelley Wood | Nov 12, 2017 | Articles, Blog, Featured
Any discussion of women’s experience in technology companies eventually turns to some discussion of men’s “bad behavior” — and I’m not talking about the awful prevalence of sexual harassment. Women in our Women in Tech research commonly complain about “being...
by Shelley Wood | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog, Featured
I’ve now read James Damore’s document about diversity at Google multiple times. James Damore is the 28-year old Google developer who wrote a long treatise in which he claimed that Google was an echo chamber of liberal ideas and that hiring women who aren’t good...
by Karen | Jun 4, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Over the last 18 months I’ve been travelling to different venues to give talks on the Women in Technology Retention Project. The audience has been women and some men. The ideas resonate with women but men also want to know what they can do to help. As one male manager...
by Shelley Wood | Apr 22, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Karen’s article in Network Computing outlines the critical factors companies should focus on in order to retain women working in IT. The article is a great introduction to work being done by the Women in Tech Project.
by Shelley Wood | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Today the percentage of women in technology is dropping. Worse, as reported by NCWIT the quit rate for tech women is more than twice as high (41%) as compared to men (17%) and 56% of women leave the field mid career. Clearly if we want more women in technology we have...
by Shelley Wood | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog
Watch the webinar, take this survey for our research, volunteer to help, and/or be interviewed. Why are women leaving high tech? While there are many reasons for this phenomenon, research indicates that daily workplace factors, along with the realities of what they...
