By Paula Bernier Other than the extreme hours, when I image working in Silicon Valley I picture a hospitable environment in which energetic young people frolic around brightly-colored campuses while enjoying free granola bars. While aspects of this romanticized version of that work world may hit close to home, the fact is that Silicon Valley […]
GM Partners with Girls Who Code
By Paula Bernier Women, who are underrepresented in the tech sector, want and need good-paying and interesting jobs. Meanwhile, the automotive industry is going to require more skilled talent to write code for its vehicles, and that kind of talent is increasingly difficult to come by. So Mary Barra – the CEO and chairman of […]
Report Highlights Top Paid Tech Women
By Paula Bernier We’re hearing a lot lately about how women are underrepresented and underpaid in the tech industry. And while there’s little doubt that is the truth, the fact remains that an elite group of women in tech are making some very nice dough. In fact, a May report by The Huffington Post says […]
SWAG Comments on Female Underrepresentation in Tech
By Paula Bernier We’ve heard it before, and we’ll hear it again: Women are under represented in tech at all levels. Many sources indicate that the reason for that is a mix of nature (in this case, the nature of the male-dominated workforce and management) and nurture (how women are raised, how they perceive themselves, […]
Women Reject Idea They Should Obscure Their Genders to Advance in Tech
By Paula Bernier On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. That’s the verbage from one of my favorite cartoons. I just looked it up and was reminded it first appeared in The New Yorker toward the middle of 1993. Of course, the same could said about the internet relative to men and women. For […]
How We Might Address the Decline of Women in Computing
By Paula Bernier The presence of women in the computing field is not just lower than that of men, it’s actually on the decline. That’s not good for women, and it’s not good for the tech workforce, as there is a talent shortage for people with computing jobs. More than 500,000 such jobs were open […]