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...
by admin | Sep 21, 2015 | press
am constantly amazed at the enormous strides made in science, technology, engineering and math. And yet, as some of TWE’s interviews showcase, STEM jobs and opportunities seem to elude young women and people of color. I just saw the documentary CODE: Debugging the...
by admin | Aug 6, 2015 | press
Robin Hauser Reynolds describes her daughter as a good student, a strong athlete and a confident young woman. So she was surprised when her daughter called home her sophomore year, sounding insecure about one of her classes — computer science. “She’s a strong woman,...
by admin | Aug 6, 2015 | press
Back in the 1960s — the so-called “Mad Men” era — women who worked in offices were most likely to be secretaries who catered to their male bosses, ran their errands and made them coffee. According to a documentary that will have a special showing in Madison this week,...
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