South by Southwest can brag about the diversity of its keynote speaker lineup, but the annual culture, entertainment, and technology conference still managed to slip-up when it came to embracing inclusivity at this year’s show.
Case in point: O…
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Women are taking charge in Senegal’s growing tech industry
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On a balmy evening in Dakar, seven young women were gathered in the basement of a local university, not far from the city’s Monument of African Renaissance statue. Lit by the white glow of a projector screen, they tapped eagerly at laptops as the speakers covered everything from how to market your business on Instagram, to designing a website and using WhatsApp to sell your products.
Taking furious notes near the front was Rosa Evora, who runs a small business baking and selling cakes. At just 21, the business world is new to her, but like millennials everywhere, she has a good grasp of the digital world — in fact, it was social media that launched her career. Read more…
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We need to change the way we talk about women in tech
It’s important that we talk about women in tech, and women in the workplace generally.
2017 (and 2018 so far) has seen an explosion of women opening up about sexism in their workplaces, from the athletes of USA Gymnastics to Susan Fowler’s expo…
Hey, tech CEOs: Fighting racism isn’t just right, it’s also good business
This column is part of a series called “Voices of Women in Tech,” created in collaboration with AnitaB.org, a global enterprise that supports women in technical fields, as well as the organizations that employ them and the academic institutions …
View More Hey, tech CEOs: Fighting racism isn’t just right, it’s also good businessYouTube CEO’s disappointing response to lack of women in tech completely missed the point
The lack of diversity in tech isn’t a new issue, and yet top leaders in Silicon Valley still struggle to talk about it.
The latest stumble comes from YouTube CEO Susan Wojicicki speaking with MSNBC’s Ari Melber and Recode’s Kara Swisher at the …
The long, strange history of the backlash against women in tech
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This column is part of a series called “Voices of Women in Tech,” created in collaboration with AnitaB.org, a global enterprise that supports women in technical fields, as well as the organizations that employ them and the academic institutions training the next generation.
As we prepare for the second annual Women’s March this weekend, it’s tempting to see the last 12 months as a time of unique empowerment. But honestly, the more things begin to change, the more obvious it becomes that we must fight against inertia and the tendency for our industry to revert to the same old tired excuses about why women can’t have seats at the table. Read more…
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James Damore is suing Google for alleged discrimination against white male conservatives
James Damore, a fired Google engineer famous for penning a memo that argued lack of diversity in tech is in part because women are biologically inferior to men, has sued his former employer.
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Why Hillary Clinton’s former CTO left politics for a fitness startup
Stephanie Hannon, 43, didn’t consider herself an athlete until age 39. In 2014, a looming surgery for personal health reasons had encouraged her to start working out. She began with a hike, and like millions of people worldwide, she turned to her sma…
View More Why Hillary Clinton’s former CTO left politics for a fitness startupPolice and communities can find themselves without a way to communicate. This startup thinks it can help.
When Kona Shen moved back to the United States in 2014 after a few years in Haiti, she returned to a country grappling with police brutality. Eric Garner was killed in a police officer’s chokehold that July and Michael Brown was shot and killed by an…
View More Police and communities can find themselves without a way to communicate. This startup thinks it can help.Stitch Fix’s IPO was… fine. It was fine.
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Stitch Fix debuted on the stock market on Friday, and while things didn’t go quite as well as expected, they still went pretty smoothly.
The clothing and personal styling subscription service raised $120 million in its initial public offering—making the transition from venture-funded startup to publicly traded on Wall Street—with an opening price of $16.90 a share. In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in October, Stitch Fix expected a price between $18 and $20. Then Thursday night, the company downgraded expectations to $15 a share before opening a little higher Friday. The company sold 8 million shares, another downsizing from its previous 10 million target. Read more…
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‘The time is right’—a startup wants to get 100 progressive women elected to Congress
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After election results this November, we’re starting to see what happens when people outraged by their politicians’ sexism and transphobia run for office.
A new platform, built by a Google Politics alum and founding members of the Obama White House U.S. Digital Service, wants to make sure we don’t lose that momentumProject 100 is a tool to help progressive women get elected—and to help voters find the right progressive women to support and vote for.
“We developed an organization purpose-built to support the new wave of exciting women running around the country so women can actually win,” co-founder Danielle Gram said. Read more…
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View More ‘The time is right’—a startup wants to get 100 progressive women elected to CongressDollar Shave Club finally has a real competitor for women’s shaving
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Dollar Shave Club, which is basically just razors sold through the mail, sold for $1 billion. The subscription razor delivery service offers its wholesale-cost shaving products for anyone who wants to use them—but it’s still mostly marketed for men.
That’s why the founders of Billie, a new startup, think they have a way into the surprisingly lucrative subscription shaving business.
“We looked at the shaving categories and we saw a lot of companies focused on providing a better shaving experience for men,” co-founder Georgina Gooley said. “Women have been kind of an afterthought in this category.” Read more…
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