by admin | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
This week at the Emmys, Viola Davis reminded us that, “the only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity”. Clearly she was talking about women actors’ accessibility to leading roles in Hollywood, but her comment got me thinking about how...
by admin | Oct 1, 2015 | press
Robin Hauser Reynolds was close to finishing her latest documentary on the lack of women in the tech industry when a brouhaha erupted over a just-released Barbie book, “I Can Be a Computer Engineer.” In the book, geared for girls 3 to 7 years old, Barbie is working on...
by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | press
Code builds things: websites, games, this story you're reading. But what code hasn't built, as the tech industry proves again and again, is gender parity among the coders themselves. That's the central issue in CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, a documentary that...
by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | press
"Never send a boy to do a woman’s job." That was Angelina Jolie, playing computer whiz Kate "Acid Burn" Libby, in Hackers, the 1995 cult classic. But in the two decades since the film’s release, "hacking" has become entrenched in popular culture as a largely masculine...
by admin | Sep 21, 2015 | press
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New York City programmer Bana Malik was passionate about computers and mathematics from an early age, a video games enthusiast and email user way before many of her male friends. But early in her studies at New York's Columbia...
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