News Archive: Blog
Deadline Extended! - Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award
The nomination deadline for the Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership has been extended until May 13th.The Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award recognizes and celebrates an outstanding women technical leader. The recipient will be honored and receive a $10,000 cash award at the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in ... Read more
Mujeres en Tecnología visits ABI
Shortly after the Anita Borg Institute page on Facebook launched in February, two of the page's new fans sent me messages. Students led by graduate Alicia Chong and advisor Martha Cisneros had started a new organization at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). Their group is called Mujeres en Tecnología ... Read more
Gendered Innovations day 2: Women in Silicon Valley’s Entrepreneurial Culture
I took so many notes at the Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering conference that it’s taken me a while to pare them down. The Friday afternoon panel on Women’s Experience of Silicon Valley’s Entrepreneurial Culture was particularly rich. The panel included: Myra M. Hart, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard University ... Read more
Number of College Computer Science Majors up for the first time since 2000
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is working on the release of its Annual Taulbee Survey of Phd Granting educational institutions. CRA has released the current data on undergraduate enrollment. They find that for the first time since 2000, the number of computer science majors has gone up slightly. While the ... Read more
Gendered Innovations in Science & Engineering: Women and the Future of Science
I spent much of March 13 and 14 at the Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering conference presented by the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. Throughout, I was struck by the similarities between the stories of and data on discrimination and bias in both academia and industry. ... Read more
International Women’s Day
March 8th is International Women's Day. What does this day mean to you? For the Anita Borg Institute, it means celebrating the achievement of technical women around the world, as well as celebrating our commitment for technology to have a positive impact on women around the world. I find the day's ... Read more
TechLeaders Day Two: Negotiation Tips
Research shows that men initiate negotiations about four times as often as women do. Today at day two of ABI's "Power and Influence" TechLeaders workshop, hosted by Google, this group of technical women is honing skills and learning some negotiation techniques. The workshop facilitator Jo Miller, CEO of Women's Leadership Coaching, ... Read more
Beyond Superwoman - work-life balance and resiliency
On Day 2 of TechLeaders: Power and Influence, Jo Miller, CEO of Women's Leadership Coaching, is discussing Resiliency with the participants which involve work-life balance, job satisfaction, and First, she argues taht we need to go beyond the myth of superwoman. Work and life cannot be separated - rather than balance, integration is ... Read more
TechLeaders: Power and Influence, at Google Silicon Valley
Today, the Anita Borg Institute is kicking off its newest TechLeaders program, "Power and Influence", hosted by Google. 80 technical women from 21 companies such as Apple, EBay, Cisco, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Juniper Networks, RedEnvelope.com, Salesforce.com, and Walmart.com, are discussing topics such as organizational awareness, visibility, influence without authority, and negotiation. The workshop is being ... Read more
Million Dollar IT Babes
These million dollar babes aren't calendar pinups or movie starlets, but intelligent women who run multi-million dollar technology businesses across the IT sector in Australia, where men account for more than 82 percent of all IT employees. The Million $ Babes awards, created by ThoughtWare CEO Sonja Bernhardt, highlight the entrepreneurial ... Read more