Trish Millines Dziko, a former manager at Microsoft, became a trailblazer in the field of IT before it came into style. After seeing very little change in the high tech industry around the underrepresentation of women and people of color, she founded the Technology Access Foundation (TAF).
Read MoreKshama Sawant is a Seattle City Council member-elect and is the first socialist to be elected in Seattle for more than a century. An economics teacher at Seattle Central Community College, she stunned the Seattle progressive community by beating a longtime Democratic council member in the November election.
Read MoreReading Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In on Kindle earlier this year, I noticed one of the most underlined passages was this one: “Fear is at the root of so many barriers women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged.”
The fact that this is one of the most underlined passages is interesting, but I don’t think it’s fear women are wrestling with
Read MoreEmily Graslie is the host of the educational YouTube channel, “The Brain Scoop,” based out of the Chicago Field Museum. “(It) is one of the warmest, slyest video blogs on the web,” writes NPR science reporter Robert Krulwich. “She’s where I go to find out what museum scientists are up to — and right now she’s at the Field Museum
Read More“If there were a chutzpah caucus in the United States Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) would be its natural leader,” wrote the New York Times last week in a profile of the senator.
Gillibrand aggressively fights for what she thinks is right, even if it means defying her party and bucking its leadership. As a fairly new and junior senator, she’s expected
Read MoreWhile so many organizations and business conferences struggle to achieve or are unwilling to look at gender balance and/or racial diversity, some folks are keeping it simple and getting it right.
In San Francisco today, hundreds of folks will gather for day 2 of the wildly popular Lean Startup conference, based on the 2011 book by the same name by tech entrepreneur Eric Ries.
Read MoreLinda Cliatt-Wayman is the principal of Strawberry Mansion High School (SMHS) in North Philadelphia, a school that has 94 security cameras, police patrolling the hallways, and an environment where students have been known to make direct threats against her life.
Read MoreOn my reading list for this winter is Marianne Schnall’s What Will It Take To Make a Woman President? In my dialogue work, my colleagues and I think a lot about which questions have the power to spur people to action and we often arrive at questions starting with this same “What will it take…” set-up.
Read MoreI never had a formal mentor. But I was incredibly fortunate that some people saw in me capabilities I didn’t see in myself.
Read MoreDo you have a mentor? Are you a mentor? Do you want a mentor?
Read MoreI spent last weekend “recharging”, as they say, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. (Ok, not exactly in the mountains—it was cold and there were reports of bears—but at least nestled between them at the always lovely Highland Center Lodge).
Read MoreAbout 91,730 women will be diagnosed with gynecological cancer this year and about 30,000 of them will die from the disease, according to estimates by the American Cancer Society.
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