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Debian Group Encourages Women Developers
News The Debian Women group, which was set up in March this year to encourage the participation of women in Debian's future development, is already making progress in encouraging women to apply to be Debian developers, it says.
[December 14, 2004, 12:55]
They Are Women In Technology. Hear Them Roar.
News "I see the Internet as a huge resource and a very powerful resource," said Ferris, the president of International Women's Democracy Center, a global group that trains women outside the U.S.to run for office in their countries.
[June 29, 1998, 9:09]
Study: Women And Elderly Lead Internet Charge
News This year's edition of the regulator's annual UK Communications Market survey shows that, in the age group between 25-49, the internet is used more by women than men. Women and older people are becoming the most active users of the web, a major...
[August 23, 2007, 14:35]
Apache Encourages Female Coders
News The free Linux distribution Debian set up a group last year to encourage the participation of women. Helen Faulkner, a member of Debian Women, told ZDNet UK last year that the group offers advice to women on a variety of topics from how to install...
[August 22, 2005, 17:45]
She-geeks Confess Love For Linux
News The problem, according to the LinuxChix, is that in a room full of 300 Bay Area Linux User Group members, only three or four are women. I knew there were other women out there who use Linux, but they're really hard to find," Richardson said...
[September 16, 1999, 14:00]
Women Leaders? Not In Our Boardroom
News Several companies had no women executives, including Alltel, Fox Entertainment Group, Knight Trading Group, USA Networks and WorldCom. Companies without women board members included AMC Entertainment, Ameritrade, Clear Channel, CNET Networks...
[August 28, 2002, 8:59]
Female IT Workers Face Pay Gap Of One-fifth
News October is equal pay campaign group the Fawcett Society's 'No Pay Day' — or the date from which women work 'for free' until the end of the year, given the male/female pay gap. Gillian Arnold, chair of Intellect's Women in IT group, said in a...
[October 31, 2008, 11:25]
Afghanistan Tech Training Programme Produces First Graduates
News Among the first group of 17 graduates are six young women. A high-tech training programme set up as a public-private partnership in Afghanistan's capital has produced its first batch of graduates, a third of them women.
[April 16, 2003, 12:17]
Women's Advocates Mourn Fiorina's Loss
News It's rare for women to run large businesses, but leadership in the technology industry is particularly male-dominated, according to a 2003 report by Catalyst, a group that pushes to increase the presence of women in senior management roles.
[February 10, 2005, 13:00]
Xansa Founder Honoured With BCS Award
News The BCS Women in IT Award 2004 The awards, held annually by the professional body for the IT industry, recognise excellence and innovation among IT professionals in the UK across the four categories of Business Achievement, Technology, Individual...
[October 20, 2004, 18:05]
IT Companies 'discriminate Towards Women'
News To tackle the problem of women being under-represented at senior levels, Shoshanna Budzianowski, a group programme manager at Microsoft, said companies should gather data to find out whether there is a pattern of women not being offered promotions.
[September 14, 2005, 12:05]
Intel's Anthropological Army
News So we looked at 22 to 34 year old women, and there were great similarities. But then we checked women in Brazil, and there was a huge difference. I find different ways to look at things that seem familiar: TV as a cultural object, women and...
[August 26, 2005, 11:15]
Apple's Environmental Record Under Fire
News With Apple shares having more than doubled during the past year, shareholders turned much of their attention at Thursday's annual meeting to other concerns, including environmental issues and the dearth of women in senior roles at the computer maker.
[April 22, 2005, 11:05]
British Women Give Online Porn The Thumbs Up
News More than a quarter of the entire UK home Internet population visited pornography Web sites in June, with a quarter of the surfers being women. Of these, 26.9 percent were women. Adult content is surprisingly popular with the over 50s, with almost...
[August 13, 2001, 8:30]
Women In IT: Problems And Solutions
News Within an overall workforce comprising over 50 percent women, only 20 percent of the IT workforce is female, and an even smaller portion of CIOs is female. As women, we need to take personal responsibility for making change.
[June 22, 2005, 16:00]
Women And Information Technology review
Reviews Getting more women into computing has long been a concern of the (American) Association for Computing Machinery; the British Computer Society also has its BCSWomen Specialist Group. Discovering that women were underrepresented in computer science...
[July 5, 2006, 14:35]
Women Haven't Broken The Venture Capital Ceiling
News Women In Technology International is looking to software and schools these days to give women a leg up in the tech world. The organisation, which is dedicated to promoting women in technology and providing networking opportunities for them...
[June 22, 2000, 10:24]
Britons Baffled By Incomprehensible Technology
News Contrary to stereotypes, men were not significantly more techie than women -- they were aware of ten out of 15 products but only had a good understanding of five, used two and planned to buy one in the next year.
[April 2, 2001, 6:18]
E-tills Ring Out For Internet Shopping Day
News Currently, the gender divide with online spending is roughly equal, but with around 8,000 women switching on to online shopping every day, IMRG projects that distribution in the future is more likely to be weighted 70/30 in favour of female surfers.
[July 24, 2003, 16:14]
Macromedia Case Study: Invisible Ideas
White Papers Located in Boston, the Nature and Inquiry artists group includes five men and women that embrace scientific principles as the foundation of their work. When the opportunity arose to participate in Boston's Cyberarts Festival 2003, the Nature and...
[May 16, 2004, 0:00]
