Teen Voices
Camp Introduces Girls to AI, the Modern Day ‘Industrial Revolution’
|
This camp aims to give girls leadership experiences in artificial intelligence, the next frontier for gender equality in STEM.
Technology
Not Enough Women in Tech? Here’s What Needs to Change
|
Experts estimate there will be 1.4 million jobs available in computer science in the U.S. by 2020, but most women won’t benefit from these opportunities. Tech companies and the government can step up and change this.
bullying
Here’s How Schoolkid Behavior Can Help Women in Tech
|
As soon as I saw the hair-raising findings about the harassment of senior women in technology my mind swung to another recent study of 56 schools and the insight it provides on changing cultures of conflict.
FCC
For Online Equity We Need Our Net Neutrality Back
|
Women have been using the Internet to find each other online, build communities and push aside the gatekeepers to power. None of that is possible if access is left up to Internet service providers, as a January court ruling allowed.
Computers and Technology
Feminists Launch Model for Online Learning
|
This multi-university online course emphasizes feminist contributions to technological innovation and a collaborative approach that contrasts with the MOOC. “Expertise is distributed throughout the network,” says a facilitator.
Education
Female Teens Ready for Rocket Launch Competition
|
Only five of the 100 national teen teams competing at Saturday’s Team America Rocketry Challenge are all-female. One contestant said that doesn’t faze her–male competitors stopped intimidating her in grade school.
gender discrimination
Sarah Stierch Emerges as Wikipedia’s ‘Go-To Woman’
|
In her new post at the Wikimedia Foundation the prolific contributor and open-culture advocate welcomes the soul-searching caused by the latest scandal over the online encyclopedia’s treatment of women. “That’s how it should work,” she says.
Commentary
Steubenville-Style Tech Puts Rapists on Gotcha
|
Murphy has no patience for hand wringing over the release of the Ohio rape-case video. These technological advances, she says, give a huge boost to rape prosecutors who currently put a mere 2 percent of alleged rapists in jail for even one day.
apps
Phone App Puts Friends and Safety a Tap Away
|
Location-based technology allows smartphone users to instantly tell friends when and where something is going wrong. Developers have been concentrating on college students but some are starting to aim at younger ages, when abuse often starts.
Marissa Mayer
CEO and Pregnant; Yahoo! But Wait a Minute . . .
|
Marissa Mayer is taking the helm of a major technology company while pregnant. That makes this the perfect opportunity to re-evaluate a broken system for parental leave that has allowed us to lag far behind other countries.