As with many great ideas, Systers came out of a conversation Anita Borg herself had with…
While there are inspirational success stories of women in STEM and computing who thrive on the tenure track, there are still many obstacles at home and at work for women pursuing academic…
The best thing related to computers that I or my parents could find when I was a teenager, awkward and crazy dorky, was programming classes. You know what would have been a whole lot better? Building robots. You know what would have been even better? An all-girl robot group!
The dream of going away to college and being successful is not the reality for a vast number of…
The Google I/O conference is without a doubt a premiere technical conference where the tickets…
Along the lines of our earlier post called Getting What you’re Worth we decided to revisit the pay gap between women and men in technical careers. Consider:
The original Systers post by Gabriella Asprella Libonati from last summer was a…
I finished my PhD about a year ago. When I first joined graduate school I knew beyond a doubt that what I wanted to do after I graduated was to teach and work at a research university. What could be better than the flexible schedule, the ability to work on stimulating projects, and traveling around…