Women and Technology

A New Metaphor for Your Career

Sheryl Sandberg | Posted 05.31.2012

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Sheryl Sandberg

A career is no longer like a ladder; it's like a jungle gym. For your career, look for opportunities, look for growth, look for impact, look for a mission. Move sideways, move down, move on, move off.

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My Experience as a Field Engineer Off the Coast of Angola

Women 2.0 | Posted 05.21.2012

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Women 2.0

The timer had started running 30 minutes ago. I was sweating from the exertion of rigging up a 500-pound tool string with my crew and the nervousness of being responsible of running a $2 million exploration job in an offshore oil platform in Africa.

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What the Facebook IPO Means

Clara Shih | Posted 05.14.2012

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Clara Shih

It's electrifying here in Silicon Valley this week, even more so than usual. Normally, many of us are heads down, focused on our own companies, but right now, even in the land of "what's next?" all anyone can talk about is the Facebook IPO.

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Lilypad Arduino

Adda Birnir | Posted 05.10.2012

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Adda Birnir

When I tell people that one of my personal goals is to bring more women into tech, and that I plan to do so by making tech learning fun and accessible, a lot of people -- usually men -- worry that what I am doing is patronizing.

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The Role of Mentorship for Women in Technology

Ekaterina Walter | Posted 05.23.2012

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Ekaterina Walter

So why aren't there more female leaders among us? This is the question that is particularly relevant for male-dominated industries like technology, but applicable everywhere else.

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Who Are the Next Generation's Leaders in Technology, Science, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)?

Ivo Lukas | Posted 05.13.2012

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Ivo Lukas

Now more than ever, it's important to help kids embrace the coolness factor of "geeky girls."

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Margaret Wheeler Johnson

Are You Really You Online? Susan Orlean Answers

HuffingtonPost.com | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 03.09.2012

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Susan Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is also known as one of the most prolific and beloved Twitter users on the planet. On March 10, she'll...

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The Curated Web

Brittany Morin | Posted 01.16.2012

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Brittany Morin

For all of the incredible doors the web has opened for the world, it's also overwhelmed us with an amount of content that we'll never be able to absorb. The curated web is an important next step to provide people with the ideas and information they are looking for.

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Gender Differences: Challenge Or Accept Them?

Belinda Parmar | Posted 10.29.2011

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Belinda Parmar

Would girls really opt for pink (a color considered highly masculine up to the 19th century) and boys veer towards the Lego aisle if the world didn'...

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The BlogHer'10 Conference - Women Power Up

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcia G. Yerman

The Hilton Hotel in New York City was packed on August 6th and 7th with 2400 attendees who had come for the 6th Annual BlogHer Conference. The last...

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Women Tapping Technology

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcia G. Yerman

My focus at "Rebooting the System" was to learn how technology was impacting women's issues, the dissemination of information, and the role that women were playing in this arena.

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