There’s no going back; technology is firmly engrained in our everyday life. And if it’s here to stay, how can we embrace it as a tool to grow and expand our minds, to build a healthier mind and mindset? By Claire Aristides Can you imagine life without your iPhone or laptop? We rely on our tech to tell the time (anywhere…
By Peter High A little less than 20% of chief information officers in the United States are women. That roughly mirrors the percentage of women enrolled in engineering programs at universities in the U.S. Although progress has been made in the roughly 40 years since the inception of the CIO role, more needs to be done to create pathways for…
On January 26, CloudSphere (a cloud governance platform) announced that former Google and Microsoft executive, Jane Gilson, is their new CEO. She will be the first female to hold that position with the company. Gilson will leverage her extensive international experience, her background with Software as a Service models, and her understanding of cloud customer needs to help CloudSphere scale to the…
Katica Roy is a gender economist and the CEO and founder of Pipeline, an award-winning SaaS company that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and drive economic gains through gender equity.
Women Who Tech Launches Challenge To Help Fund Startups Affected By Covid-19 Women Who Tech, one of the largest organizations dedicated to funding women-led tech startups, launched a new grant program to identify standout female leaders in tech working to mitigate issues caused by the pandemic. The COVID-19 Tech Grant will award women-run companies innovating in industries such as healthcare, education and…
The Role of Women in the Tech Industry Today Tech has always been a predominantly male industry, with iconic male entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg gaining the most recognition for their contributions to the sector. However, women are playing a huge part too and more and more women are entering both regular and high-level positions in tech, with the big…
Women’s health and well-being is on pace to become a $50B industry by the year 2025. Investors, say hello to ‘femtech’. The femtech market is expected to reach $50B by 2025 According to Forbes, only 10% of global investment goes to female-led startups — that’s horrendous — but, today, we’re going to let positivity win. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts the…
Women’s many contributions to technology are frequently left out of the history books and women in tech are left out of the discourse. But lately, that’s been changing. Here are 15 great ladies of technology you really need to know about. 1. The women who cracked the secrets of the universe with computation: Williamina Fleming Fleming worked as a compute…
