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A Case for Women in Technology

Pragmatic Works and the PASS Women in Tech chapter are co-sponsoring a webinar series featuring women speakers.

I presented a session on “A Case for Women in Technology” explaining why we are all affected by the lack of women studying and working in tech. The recording is available here. And here are the slides from that presentation:

The presentation includes a link to a trailer for an upcoming documentary. This short video makes a good case for why we need more women creating technology.

There are many organizations doing good and important work on this issue. Here are some of them:

• National Center for Women & Information Technology
• Catalyst
• Anita Borg Institute
• Girls Inc
• Girls Who Code
• Code.org
• Black Girls Code
• Teaching Kids Programming
• Digigirlz
• IGNITE
• She++
• The Ada Initiative
• PASS WIT

Here are the publications I referenced in my slides:

Women in IT: The Facts

Why Diversity Matters

Women in IT: By the Numbers

NCWIT Scorecard

Print posted @ Tuesday, March 05, 2013 8:15 PM