News Archive: April 2010
CIO Roundtable Hosted by Year Up New York
Several months ago, I was invited to participate on a panel hosted by the wonderful workforce development organization Year Up New York. If you don’t know about Year Up, they help young adults from challenging backgrounds achieve a “year up” in order to join the workforce as technology staff, or ... Read more
Senior Technical Woman Profile: Judy Priest, Distinguished Engineer and Manager in the Gigabit Systems Group, Cisco Systems, Inc
1. How did you decide to pursue a career in technology? My father was a math major and my mother was a physicist. I have two brothers that started out with engineering degrees, one is now a neurosurgeon and the other a tenured professor. I had the natural inclination and nurturing ... Read more
New Initiatives for Women of Color in Computing
ABI is pleased to announce that there are several new community spaces for technical women of color. The Women of Color in Computing Facebook and LinkedIn groups were initiated as a result of a survey conducted during the Women of Color Luncheon at the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of ... Read more
Ask Jo: Two worlds collide: Technology and Humans: Oh! The Possibilities!
By Rebecca Norlander Question: What does the future look like for women in computing? It's so hard to decide what topic to write about when you are asked to be a guest columnist. I've had so many ideas that each time I sat down in front of the ... Read more
Linda Apsley, Director of Program Management, Business Online Services Group, Microsoft Corporation
Every month on our site, we will be featuring senior technical women. This week, Linda Apsley, Director of Program Management, Microsoft, answers our questions about success as a technical woman. Linda Apsley is the Director of Program Management in the Business Online Services Group at Microsoft where she manages an engineering ... Read more
Profiles of Women in Human-Computer Interaction: Jodi Forlizzi
By Vaishali Jain and Kami Neumiller This is the second in a series of profiles on women in Human-Computer Interaction. Students from Carnegie Mellon University's Masters of Human-Computer Interaction program are conducting interviews with women in HCI to identify how they have broken through the "glass ceiling" in industry. The profiles ... Read more
Housework is more than a chore – it’s draining America’s female employees
Whether you realize it or not, all that nagging housework can be eating into your job productivity and getting in the way of you getting ahead in your career – especially if you’re a woman, says Londa Schiebinger, director of Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Published on January 19, ... Read more