News Archive: Blog
A White House Briefing on Women, March 27, 2011 – Women’s Issues Are Everyone’s Issues
As part of Vision 2020, a national initiative convening women leaders from across the U.S. with the purpose of advancing women's equality by the year 2020, I was invited to a White House Women’s Briefing. Jointly developed by the White House Office of Public Engagement, Council on Women and Girls and Vision ... Read more
Women in the Same Place, Running Really Hard…
I am celebrating International Women’s Day in New York. On Tuesday, I participated in the Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Meeting hosted by UN Global Compact and UN Women, and moderated by the Honorable Linda Tarr-Whelan, former Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women and a Demos Distinguished Senior ... Read more
What if women were equally represented in innovation?
Our office is busy preparing for the Grace Hopper Celebration (10 days left!), and I am focusing on prepping my remarks for a panel on the business case for diversity. Beryl Nelson from Google and Mani Abrol from Lexity Labs have brought the concept of this successful panel from Grace Hopper India, ... Read more
Women in Tech in India: The issue of Employability
By Caroline Simard and Deanna Kosaraju Global economic woes and widespread discontent have been spreading like wildfires lately. One bright spot in many countries has been a a more robust labor market for technical positions. Many countries are now talking about a shortage of engineering and computer science degrees. How much of this ... Read more
The Woman’s Fight
I am travelling through Morocco with the TechWomen delegation. I've visited small villages where women are the predominant earners, struggling to find distribution channels for their work. We teach them ecommerce, packaging, marketing, competition. Unable to ask their own product questions—the village men are the voices we most often hear—these ... Read more
How to Move Your Organization From Surviving to Thriving
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology will convene two special constituencies at the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration on the theme of advancing technical women. Technical executives will discuss solutions for advancing technical women at the Technical Executive Forum and their own initiatives and actions in increasing the representation ... Read more
A Successful Entrepreneur Workshop for TechWomen
By Chantaell Barker, Student, Barnard College, and Margarita Perez, Student, Stanford University, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Interns On Friday, June 17th, Huawei hosted a TechWomen workshop on developing women entrepreneurs in Santa Clara, CA. The TechWomen Mentees—technical women from the Middle East and North Africa—were welcomed by ... Read more
Intel Science Talent Search – Welcome to the Real Meaning of Elegant Science
Jody Mahoney, VP Business Development, blogs about her experience attending the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search Gala.
How should companies attract the best technical talent?
A couple of days ago, the New York Times published a piece on the fierce competition for hiring top technical talent in Silicon Valley firms. The article's coverage focused on the perks being offered to lure potential recruits: free haircuts, dog-friendly offices, free food, and the latest gadgets. What we at ABI would love to see is ... Read more
Women’s Empowerment Principles, One Year Later
Equality Means Business Do you know that women account for $20 trillion of global purchasing power—more than the entire GDP of China? Or that women influence 80% of all purchasing decisions, worldwide? [2] Or more sobering to women in the US--American women are the majority of voters, 80 percent of consumers, ... Read more